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Wanderers QUOTES

Wanderers QUOTES

1 " Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

2 " You're brave and smart and kind and I'd be a fool not to trust you. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

3 " Soon the smoke will drift over the river, and with it, the shepherds' first exposure to that smell: a smell like sick pork cooked slow, a smell that some would describe as having a taste, too, one that lingered in the back of the nose, at the base of the tongue, a taste not unlike licking a very old library book. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

4 " That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though—we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

5 " I love you in the future tense: I will love you, tomorrow and the day after and the day after that until there are no more days left for us. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

6 " Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

7 " Hell, nobody's okay. Maybe we never were, and we damn sure aren't now. But we're here. Until we're not. And that's all I find it fair to ask for. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

8 " Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

9 " Here’s how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it’s not just biting our ass, but it’s already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

10 " The best gift you can give somebody is a surprise because they never forget. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

11 " You didn’t change anyone’s mind about politics by hammering away at them—all that did was drive the nail deeper into the wall of their own certainty. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

12 " We laugh so that we don't scream. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

13 " In them and between them flourished the heat of life, the madness of love, and the sudden absolute certainty of the end of all that they knew. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

14 " But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good and in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It's not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

15 " A grotesque thought struck Benji: Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever. And in that fever, in that rising of global temperature, the earth was able to release new defenses. White Mask was not here to kill the world. It was here to kill the people—the fungus would serve as a vicious defense mechanism to eradicate the infection of humanity. This epidemic represented antibodies to restore balance to the body. Kill the parasite and save the host. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

16 " And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

17 " I heard that if you complain it reprograms your brain like a computer virus and it just makes you more and more unhappy, so I’m going to stay positive because I bet the opposite is true, too. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

18 " He was just another user claiming the mantle of a "Good Christian." Like so many of the world bullies and abusers, choosing to find shelter in the faith -- using their religiosity as both shield and sword. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

19 " But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It's not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing. As long as we're still here, not merely surviving but trying to do right by one another, then I believe that the heritage of God's light is still in us. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers

20 " THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ends, with both a bang and a whimper. "

― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers