253 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.”
“To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
“The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how th...”
“I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again....”
“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.”
“And it occurs to me that theres no real difference between us, the living and the dead; its just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead”
“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?”
“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”
“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
“Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?”
“Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.”
“I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. Now I lay me down to sleep To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasnt sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came ...”
“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.”
“Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.”
“His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a delicious tickle against my neck. The room is very cold; it would be nice to climb under the cover...”
“Do you believe in God, Evan?Sure I do.I dont. I mean, I dont know. I did before the Others came. Or thought I did, when I thought about it at all. And then they came and I have to stop for a second...”
“Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to everything except feeding, procreation, and defending their territory. The shark does not love. It...”
“You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope.”
“In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.”
“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...”
