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1 " 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 , Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
2 " 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. "
3 " This was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right then or the craving would eat me alive. "
― Dan Wells , I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
4 " It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver "
5 " Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver "
6 " The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. "
7 " You'll never see us coming. "
8 " It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. "
― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)
9 " I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end… "
10 " Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them. "
11 " It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something. "
12 " Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to inspire you, role models to look up to, and the freedom and courage to make your own choices, no matter how simple or scary or hard or eternal they may be. "
― Dan Wells , Ruins (Partials Sequence, #3)
13 " The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice. "
14 " People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves. "
15 " Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you. "
16 " To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery. "
― Dan Wells , Mr. Monster (John Cleaver, #2)
17 " Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage. "
18 " The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong. "
19 " Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson. "
20 " If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it. "
