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American author
“We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earths final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.”
“He lays me on the bed. I say, right before he kisses me again, If you kiss me again, Im going to knee you in the balls.His hands are incredibly soft, like a cloud touching me.I wont let you just He...”
“Arent you coming with us?I feel his hand on my cheek. I know what this means and I slap his hand away.Youre coming with us, Evan, I say.Theres something I have to do.Thats right. My hand flails for...”
“Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.”
“Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”
“You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just p...”
“The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.”
“Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.”
“...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of thei...”
“I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment.”
“Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.”
“Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.”
“This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.”
“He didnt like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.”
“Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortunes slings and arrows.”
“Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.”
“Ah. And then you kill him.""No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}”
“The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.”
“That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.”
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. Th...”
