"Sometimes when mom is getting ready to write a book she says she doesn't know where to start, that the ending is so clear to her that the beginning doesn't seem important any more. I feel that way now only I don't know what the ending is, not even what the ending is tonight." Page 18

"'My cell phone is out!' someone screamed a few doors down, and she sounded the way we'd felt when we saw CNN was gone. Civilization has ended." Page 22

"I'm already starting to forget what normal life felt like, clocks that were on time, and lights that went on with the flick of a switch, and Internet, and street lights, and supermarkets, and McDonald's, and..." Page 58

"One thing Matt did say to me was that no matter what the future is, we're living through a very special time in history. He said that...