"I just can’t believe in it enough to worry," she told him. "I mean, I do believe something really awesome is going to break loose this season, but I can’t believe it means the end of anything. It’s like—somehow—I just can’t believe that civilization is going to get off the hook that easy. ‘The end of civilization’— what end? What civilization, for that matter? There isn’t any end. We’re in way too deep to have any end. The kind of troubles we got, they aren’t allowed to have any end."