Hope of the Valkyries

[cwmackowski]

From Colson Whitehead's Zone One--The main character wondering what it must've been like for a hunkered-down group of survivors in the zombie apocalypse to suddenly see rescue appear after years of isolated resistance:

"What must it have been like, to see the choppers after all that time, after they'd emptied the larder of hope and had only mealy, unleavened stubbornness to chew on?"