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Pines (Wayward Pines, #1) QUOTES

Pines (Wayward Pines, #1) QUOTES

1 " You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the earth...a million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try. We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

2 " Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

3 " His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

4 " Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren’t rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. Our genome is corruptible, and we so abused this planet that we ultimately corrupted that precious DNA blueprint that makes us human. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

5 " His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, “You spend time with your son?” “Much as I can,” he’d answered, but his father had caught the lie in his eyes. “It’ll be your loss, Ethan. Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn’t see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won’t last, so you revel in it while it’s here.” Ethan thinks often of that conversation, mostly when he’s lying awake in bed at night and everyone else is asleep, and his life screaming past at the speed of light—the weight of bills and the future and his prior failings and all these moments he’s missing—all the lost joy—perched like a boulder on his chest. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

6 " Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn’t see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won’t last, so you revel in it while it’s here. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

7 " They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

8 " Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren’t rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

9 " His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

10 " was a brilliant ache in his optic nerve, and a steady, painless throbbing at the base of his skull—the distant thunder of an approaching migraine. He rolled onto his side and pushed up into a sitting position, tucking his head between his knees. Sensed the instability of the world long before he opened his eyes, like its axis had been cut loose to teeter. His first deep breath felt like someone driving a steel wedge between the ribs high on his left side, but he groaned through "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

11 " He watched the stars go dark as the sun breathed fire into the sky, and when it finally cleared the ridge on the far side of the river, he bathed in the rays of gorgeous warmth streaming into his alcove and toasting the frozen stone. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

12 " Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he’s glad to see it end. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

13 " I have good intentions, but... But what? But all the time I fail. I hurt the ones I love. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

14 " You are one ugly motherfucker.” Ethan chuckled. “Sorry. I couldn’t resist. It’s from a movie. Seriously, what the hell are you? "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

15 " The sting and the shame of all he’s put her through are still raw. He can’t say for certain, but he suspects that if she’d done the same to him, he’d already be gone. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

16 " You believe in God, Ethan?” “No.” “Many did. Adopted moral codes. Created religions. Murdered in the names of gods they’d never seen or heard. You believe in the universe?” “Sure.” “Oh, so you’ve been to space. Seen those distant galaxies firsthand?” “Point taken. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

17 " sitting position, tucking his head between his knees. Sensed the instability of the world long before he opened his eyes, like its axis had been cut loose to teeter. His first deep breath felt like someone driving a steel wedge between the ribs high on his left side, but he groaned through the pain and forced his eyes to open. His left eye must have been badly swollen, because it seemed like he was staring through a slit. The greenest grass he’d ever seen—a forest of long, soft blades—ran down to the "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

18 " He came to lying on his back with sunlight pouring down into his face and the murmur of running water close by. There was a brilliant ache in his optic nerve, and a steady, painless throbbing at the base of his skull—the distant thunder of an approaching migraine. He rolled onto his side and pushed up into a sitting position, tucking his head between his knees. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

19 " Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

20 " He’d never hit a woman in his life, but as Pam moved in for more, he couldn’t shake the thought that it would feel so satisfying to connect his right elbow with this bitch’s jaw. "

― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)