253 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“People die. Love endures.”
“Time for the world to end.”
“The bent but unbroken ones.”
“We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. Were pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.”
“Were here, and then were gone, and its not about the time were here, but what we do with the time.”
“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”
“But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning t...”
“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”
“She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness ...”
“But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.”
“You never know when the truth will come home. You cant choose the time. The time chooses you.”
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
“And, for one ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that s...”
“You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.”
“Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.”
“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”
“This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One”
“The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.”
“The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.”
“These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets...”
“If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.”
“You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.”
