And perhaps I will go with you to the end of the world. After all, you've made me curious.

The world is neither fair. Nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself.

―We could be dead," said Eli."―That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.

Humans are capable of such wondrous things. Of cruelty, and war, but also art and invention. She will think this again and again over the years, when bombs are dropped, and buildings felled, when terror consumes whole countries. But also when the first images are impressed on film, when planes rise into the air, when movies go from black-and-white to color.