- Worker: [first lines]
- Worker: Next up! Have your identification ready!
- Alec: [standing in line] Are you signing up for the Redhats?
- Larry: If they'll take me.
- Alec: You got any military training or weapons skills?
- Larry: I used to take cardio kickboxing. Does that count?
- Alec: [laughs] Well, I hear they're desperate for more men. They'll they'll probably take anyone they can get.
- Larry: Hope you're right. I could use the extra rations.
- Carl: Is everything alright, Katie?
- Katie Bowman: Well, the last year's been hard.
- Carl: [laughs] No shit.
- Katie Bowman: [both laugh] None of us had planned for this, huh?
- Carl: "Man plans. The gods laugh."
- Katie Bowman: Tell me something. What is your favorite thing that you've learned from the Greatest Day?
- Gracie Bowman: I like how after the Greatest Day, people won't die anymore.
- Katie Bowman: Hm. Sure. Okay. Well, did you know that there are stories just like that in every one of these books?
- [indicating the world's religions]
- Gracie Bowman: There are?
- Katie Bowman: Mm-hmm. There are. So, how about we read some of them and we talk about them together?
- Will Bowman: I don't know what's waiting for me on the other side of that wall.
- Devon: Are you kidding? The rest of your life...
- Katie Bowman: You know, after the Arrival, I was horrified by how easily people gave up their freedom, without even a real fight, just to keep some semblance of their normal life. Right now, I'd give you anything for one day with my husband and my kids in our old house. I can't live with a sword hanging over my head. It's okay. You can take me in. Or not. It's your call.