You never think you’re going to get the worst-case scenario. Until you do.”
-- Penny Saunders (Part One)

Importance: Although Penny is not a character in the central part of the novel, her contribution to the blog-style sections of the text is a significant one because it serves as one of the central ideas of the novel's exploration of climate change. As Penny points out, most people are wildly unprepared for an event of Luna's magnitude, and this complacency makes the outcome of such an event infinitely worse. This is a running theme throughout the novel.

Natural disasters are never natural.”
-- Emilia Galarza (Part One)

Importance: This quote, like Penny's, is crucial to understanding the novel's thesis about the ways in which social structures contribute to the devastation wrought by climate change. As Emilia points out, while there is an extent to which nature plays a role in the creation of disaster scenarios like Luna, there is also a sense...