Dust: Book 3 of Silo, the New York Times bestselling dystopian series, now an Apple TV drama (Wool Trilogy Series)

‘It doesn’t bother me that I won’t be around one day,’ Lukas said after a while. ‘I don’t stress about the fact that I wasn’t here a hundred years ago. I think death will be a lot like that. A hundred years from now my life will be just like it was a hundred years ago.’

Apologies weren’t welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.

Our actions, you know? They last for ever. Whatever we do, it’ll always be what we did. There’s no taking them back.’

‘And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn’t matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on for ever. There’s no changing it.’

Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient and the dying.