"If there hadn't been a run, he could have held out for a while longer, and it's not as if there was no chance for him to come back to life."
"But it was precisely the run that brought everything to an end."
"People are afraid, afraid of being the last one. If we say that today's Lapar is a bank and food is the savings of people's lives and livelihoods, then those savings have already begun to tighten."
"We just need to give it another push, and a wave of runs will break out."
"People will find that there's not enough food to eat, and that they can't buy more food. They'll hoard, several times over, every bit of food they can get their hands on."
"Even if they can't possibly eat that much."
"Look!" Lance spread his hands. "If a person only needs one unit of food a day to fill his stomach."
"Now there are ten units of food, enough for two people to each eat their fill for five days."
