19 quotes found
“People die. Love endures.”
“I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.”
“The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.”
“You never know when the truth will come home. You cant choose the time. The time chooses you.”
“Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.”
“Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.”
“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...”
“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”
“Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, na...”
“Thats the cost. Thats the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, youre left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.”
“It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for th...”
“The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.”
“They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing you first.""Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever...”
“The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the winds icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in...”
“He didnt like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.”
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my fathers study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece ...”
“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green sta...”
“Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing m...”
“In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.”
