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1 " Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it. "
― James Dashner , The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #0.4)
2 " Her short blond hair shifted in the wind, and she appeared the very definition of peace and comfort. Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched. "
3 " Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror. "
4 " Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking. "
5 " They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up. "
6 " I love the sound of it," Trina whispers, as if speaking too loudly might interrupt the drumming patter of the rain outside. "It makes me want to sleep. Snuggle my head right up in your armpit and snore for three days.""My armpit?" Mark repeats. "Good thing we all showered up in the storm this morning. My pits smell like roses. Go ahead and get comfy. "
7 " What kind of world has this become?""A really sick one "
8 " You have a knack for trying to get yourself killed! "
9 " What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me. "
10 " Scared. That’s good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It’s how you respond to it that makes or breaks you. "
11 " Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds. "
12 " Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst. "
13 " She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions. "
14 " But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium. "
15 " Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking for any interlopers. "Or better yet, one of the crazies who might've strayed over here. Too bad these things have to be charged or we could get rid of this virus problem in a jiffy. Sweep these old neighborhoods nice and clean."Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. "Your value of human life brings tears to my eyes," he muttered. "
16 " A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere. "
17 " There’s something really creepy about the doors being open,” Mark whispered. “And it’s so dark inside the rooms.” “What’s your point?” Alec asked. “Ready to turn around and go home?” “No. Just saying that you should go in first. "
18 " Hey, Alec," he said.The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he grunted something that kind of sounded like a "Yeah?""Why are we spending so much time on this side of where we left them?"Alec pulled himself out of the bush and looked back at him. "Seemed logical. I'd think they either followed us out of here to find us, or they were taken by the same yahoos who attacked us. Or... maybe they went to investigate the fire."Mark thought that was all barking up the wrong tree. "Or they ran away from the fire. Not every person on earth is as wacky-brained as you, good sir. Most people see a huge roaring inferno coming at them? They decide to cut and run. Just saying. "
19 " The older man’s bushy gray eyebrows bunched up in the middle as if they were hairy bugs trying to mate. "
20 " That can’t be good. If something has a nickname, that means it’s big and being talked about. Not good at all. "