“People die. Love endures.”

“You never know when the truth will come home. You cant choose the time. The time chooses you.”

“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...”

“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...”

“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...”

“Lets establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means youd like to come in. Two means youre just stopping by to spy on me while I sleep. His eyes travel from my face to m...”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“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.”

“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”

“We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.”