The Passage

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) [year 2010]

Justin Cronin

page 806 of 881 (Amazon Kindle Version)


Her needs were small, the cold did not affect her, and she sometimes barely ate for days or even weeks; but Peter would be hungry. He was just as she'd imagined, young and strong, with a determined face, though she'd thought, somehow, that he would be taller.








The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Justin Cronin

page 808 of 881 (Amazon Kindle Version)


"They're so sad. They have such terrible dreams. I hear them all the time."

"What do you hear, Amy?"

"Who am I, who am I, who am I? They ask and ask, but I can't tell them."

Lacey cupped the girl's chin. Her eyes were glistening with tears. "You will. When the time is right."

"They're dying, Lacey. They're dying and can't stop. Why can't they stop, Lacey?"

"I think that they are waiting for you, to show them the way."

They stayed that way a long moment. In the place where Lacey's mind met Amy's, she felt sorrow and her loneliness, but ever more: she felt her courage.

She turned to Peter then. He did not love Amy, as Wolgast had. She could see there was another, someone he had left behind. But he was the one who had answered the beacon. Whoever heard it and brought Amy back - he would be the one to stand with her.








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"Space Travel Is Boring"

Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon



- posted by Kerry Burgess 05:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 01 November 2018