“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I am stronger than my trials.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice"
"No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. "
"Look on the bright side, " said Marcus.
Kira waited.
"This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. "
"I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira.
Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“It's good to see you," Said Haru.
"You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel".
P12”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.'
'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira
'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Was that the girl who went to Manhattan with you?" Asked Marcus. "I think we owe her a cookie" "I think we owe her a whole damn bakery" said Xochi. "If I wasn't hip deep on the mud, I would kiss her on the mouth”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it."
-President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I'm going to cure RM."
Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“If you can’t know the truth,” said Isolde, “live the most awesome lie you can think of.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Just because someone’s in charge of something doesn’t mean they’re in charge of everything.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?"
"It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak."
Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud."
P303”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
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“So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.”
― Stephen Colbert, quote from I Am America (And So Can You!)
“There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Moominsummer Madness
“Can we have a time-out on the self-criticism for the rest of the evening?"
"Not the rest of the evening. I can do about half an hour and then force of habit takes over.”
― Sarra Manning, quote from You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“and gains at the gaming tables spread from White’s”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Until You
“My Queen," he finally speaks, and his usually strong voice holds the slightest tremor.
"My Footman." I don't even blink, playing along with his nonchalance. "You don't seem surprised that I'm here."
"Oh, I knew you would find your way. It was just a matter of when. You actually made it sooner than I expected." He gestures around him. "Thus, the deplorable state of my house."
"Good help is so hard to find," I tease.”
― A.G. Howard, quote from Ensnared
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