“Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“If I wanted to bring you down, David, I could’ve done that months ago.” “If I wanted you dead, Agent Hassler—you and everyone you love—there is nothing in the world stopping me from making that happen. Not from prison. Not from the grave.” “So we’ve established trust,” Hassler said. “Perhaps. Or at the very least, assured mutual destruction.” “No difference in my book.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN WAYWARD PINES!”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. GIST)”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn’t just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn’t tear your eyes away.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“We’re a part of something here, Mr. Burke. Something that matters. All of us.” “Here’s the thing, Marcus, and I don’t want you to ever forget it. Nobody fucking asked me or anyone in that valley if we wanted to be a part of this.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“The endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.’ Robert Frost wrote that.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“I used to. When we were real people. When we could talk about the things in our hearts. You know this is the first real conversation I’ve had in years?”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“The world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Can’t do this.” There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“as he had? An abby streaked into the clearing. Then another. And another. A fourth. Fifth. No more. Please. No—A group of five joined the others. Then ten more. Soon there were twenty-five of them milling around the boulders in the shadow of that cliff. His heart fell. He crawled back”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Still he’d only missed his Bronco by a few hundred feet.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“The punctuations of silence weren’t completely uncomfortable. Ethan was beginning to understand that in Wayward Pines these periods of shared quiet were normal, expected, inevitable. Some people, by nature, were better at surface conversation than others. Better at walking the line, steering clear of forbidden topics. There was much more thinking before speaking. Like living in a novel of manners.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“At least there was another human being to share the weight of this crushing knowledge.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“As you’ll find with your son soon enough, letting go is the hardest, greatest thing we can do for them.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Given for me to confirm I had removed the chip. The first at 1400 on Day 5312. The next at 1500 on Day 5313. If I failed to remove the chip by Day 5313, we would have no further interaction.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“She could envision a lifetime spent trying to create such flashes of connection.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Unter gewissen Umständen schließen Sicherheit und Wahrheit einander aus.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Du kannst werden, was immer du willst. Was du dir auch in den Kopf setzt. Folge einfach deinem Herzen und lebe deine Träume." - Die guten alten Plattitüden einer ausgestorbenen Spezies.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“But like every important, defining moment in his life, it had all roared by too fast.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“Oh, you mean so we can coexist? What kind of let’s-hold-hands hippie shit are you suggesting?”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
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“The man who is at a lower level but is moving onward toward perfection is living a more moral, a better life, is more fully carrying out Christ's teaching, than the man on a much higher level of morality who is not moving onward toward perfection.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“This is what scientists and food activists at Yale University call a toxic food environment. It is the environment in which most of us live today.”
― T. Colin Campbell, quote from The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
“Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit
“First I need to do something.’ He pulled me closer towards him until our lips were almost touching.
‘What might that be?’ I managed to stutter, closing my eyes, anticipating the warmth of his lips against mine. But the kiss didn’t come. I opened my eyes. Alex had jumped to his feet.
‘Swim,’ he said, grinning at me. ‘Come on.’
‘Swim?’ I pouted, unable to hide my disappointment that he wanted to swim rather than make out with me.
Alex pulled his T-shirt off in one swift move. My eyes fell straightaway to his chest – which was tanned, smooth and ripped with muscle, and which, when you studied it as I had done, in detail, you discovered wasn’t a six-pack but actually a twelve-pack.
My eyes flitted to the shadowed hollows where his hips disappeared into his shorts, causing a flutter in parts of my body that up until three weeks ago had been flutter-dormant. Alex’s hands dropped to his shorts and he started undoing his belt.
I reassessed the swimming option. I could definitely do swimming.
He shrugged off his shorts, but before I could catch an eyeful of anything, he was off, jogging towards the water. I paused for a nanosecond, weighing up my embarrassment at stripping naked over my desire to follow him. With a deep breath, I tore off my dress then kicked off my underwear and started running towards the sea, praying Nate wasn’t doing a fly-by.
The water was warm and flat as a bath. I could see Alex in the distance, his skin gleaming in the now inky moonlight. When I got close to him, his hand snaked under the water, wrapped round my waist and pulled me towards him. I didn’t resist because I’d forgotten in that instant how to swim. And then he kissed me and I prayed silently and fervently that he took my shudder to be the effect of the water.
I tried sticking myself onto him like a barnacle, but eventually Alex managed to pull himself free, holding my wrists in his hand so I couldn’t reattach. His resolve was as solid as a nuclear bunker’s walls. Alex had said there were always chinks. But I couldn’t seem to find the one in his armour. He swam two long strokes away from me. I trod water and stayed where I was, feeling confused, glad that the night was dark enough to hide my expression.
‘I’m just trying to protect your honour,’ he said, guessing it anyway.
I groaned and rolled my eyes. When was he going to understand that I was happy for him to protect every other part of me, just not my honour?”
― Sarah Alderson, quote from Losing Lila
“I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, quote from Fear and Trembling
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