Axiom’s End

“Please don’t leave me,” she whispered.
“I do not wish to leave you.”

“I know,” Cora lied. “I believe you.”

The more they learn about you, the more incomprehensible and terrifying you will become to them.

“Do you regret it?”

“No. But having to make the choice to kill is a traumatic position to be placed in. You have been put in such a position and chose not to kill.”

Empathy and ethics, in a time of great suffering, have a way of being pushed to the side in the interest of survival.

She opted to hide.

She had two options: hide or keep running

Either way, she was never going to see him again.

We kind of have to anthropomorphize.

“I won’t let any harm come to you.”