Better to preserve the illusion of safety.
-- Narrator (First Aid)

Importance: After completing a first aid course with Tig, Nell starts to remember all of the close encounters she and Tig have had with danger and death over the years. She realizes that in the past, they were able to ignore the omnipresence of danger because of the lack of technology. In the contemporary present, she feels that it is harder to sustain this illusion of safety. Nell is therefore feeling nostalgic for a past in which one could ignore the imminence of death.

But this is a sad ending.
-- Narrator (Two Scorched Men)

Importance: Throughout "Two Scorched Men," Nell recalls many of her memories with her friends John and François. Although both men have passed away, Nell is reluctant to close her account with their deaths. As she is the only one still alive, she decides to manipulate the story of their lives together by ending it...