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41 " Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people. "
― Justin Cronin , The Passage (The Passage, #1)
42 " The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant "
― Justin Cronin , The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
43 " It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. "
― Justin Cronin , The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
44 " All things found their ends. "
45 " His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse? "
46 " He has to come to it on his own. "
47 " I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie. "
48 " Special Agent Brad Wolgast hated Texas. He hated everything about it.[...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless subdivisions and the Texas flag, which flew over everything, always as big as a circus tent; he hated the giant pickup trucks everybody drove, no matter that gas was thirteen bucks a gallon and the world was slowly seaming itself to death like a package of peas in a microwave. He hated the boots and the belts and the way people talked, ya'll this and ya'll that, as if they spent the day ropin' and ridin', not cleaning teeth and selling insurance and doing the books, like people did everywhere. "
49 " Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us. "
50 " I wanted to kill them. No, not kill. "Kill" is too dull a word for that which I desired. I wanted to annihilate them. I wanted to tear them limb from limb. I wanted to crack their bones and bury my face in the wet remains. I wanted to reach inside their chests and yank out their hearts and devour the bloody meat as the last stray current twitched the muscle and watch their faces as they died. "
51 " The sky was so thick with stars it was as if he could reach out and brush them with his hand. "
52 " Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears came to his eyes. "
53 " A baby wasn't an idea, as love was an idea. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A baby was the oldest deal there was, to go on living. "
54 " This girl from nowhere. This Amy NLN. Who was alpha, who omega? Who the beginning and who the end? "
55 " He was facing an open door. He took a deep breath and stepped forward.He stepped into the stars.It hit him in the lungs first, shoving the breath from his chest. A feeling of pure physical panic, as if he'd stepped onto nothing, onto the night sky itself. "
56 " It's love that enslaves us...It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives unfold. "
57 " There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. "
58 " She was giving him a look. It took Eustace a second to figure out what it was. Her off-kilter gaze traveled the length of his body, then lingered pointedly. The gesture was supposed to be seductive but was more like livestock trying to sell itself. "
59 " We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load. "
60 " So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying. "