"If there had ever been people on earth, nobody knew it. The dead had forgotten those they had loved. The dead were parted one from the other and could no longer remember the faces and lands they had loved in the light."
This passage stood out to me because of the power within it. What happens when we die? Obviously no one fully understands, but it's strange to think one day our lives will probably be forgotten. True, we will have impacted others in a way, but we ourselves will stop living and all the feelings and memories will just be gone.
I don't really like thinking about sad things but this passage just struck me. It's truly sad to think about and it goes under the other line of when the author repeats "it had nothing to do with anything." I think the author wants us to understand how she felt at the time. She mentions death a lot, so it's clear that's how she felt. She wasn't excited or amazed at what she was seeing; she was terrified out of her mind. I don't know about you but I think what happens after we die might be the scariest thing of all. And I keep using the word "scared" but that's really all that comes to mind.
This passage fits into the work as a whole because like I said, the author continuously talks about death. However, this is the first passage that describes what it means to be dead. Everything just ends. In this passage, she doesn't mention terror or sadness. She simply states that everything is gone. That alone makes it stand out to me as one of the most powerful passages. I really loved it.
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