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21 " On his first attempt to get up, his knees buckled and he sat down hard enough to send "
― Blake Crouch , Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
22 " warm, the sky above a deep and cloudless cobalt. The man checked the pockets of his slacks, and then of his single-breasted coat. No wallet. No money clip. No ID. No keys. No phone. Just a small Swiss Army knife in one of the inner pockets. * "
23 " 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. "
24 " 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. "
25 " Aashif stares at him through a hood of black cloth that reveals only a pair of brown, malevolent eyes and a mouthful of smiling teeth too white and perfect to be a product of any fourth-world, Middle-Eastern shithole. "
26 " 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. "
27 " Everywhere Ethan looks, lights are coming on inside houses, the air becoming fragrant with the smell of suppers cooking. Through cracked windows, he hears clanging dishes, indistinct conversations, ovens opening, closing. Everyone he passes smiles and says hello. Like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life. "
28 " He watched its heart beating. He watched it blinking. “You are one ugly motherfucker. "
29 " It was the strangest sort of fear. Unspecified. Like walking in the woods at night, not knowing exactly what you should be afraid of, and the fear all the more potent precisely because of its mystery. "
30 " Did he also instruct you not to bother calling me ahead of time to let me know the feds would be rolling up in my world? Or was that all you?” “You think I had some obligation to—” “Courtesy, Ethan. Courtesy. Then again, being a fed, maybe you aren’t familiar with that concept. "
31 " The sun was gone, and in the wake of its passing, mountain ranges stood profiled against the evening sky like a misshapen saw blade. There was nothing to see of the pine forest a thousand feet below. Not a single speck of light anywhere that existed because of man. "
32 " Marvels at her love for him. Her loyalty. So far beyond anything he deserves, it only intensifies the shame. "
33 " She took him by the hand and led him over. "
34 " Children’s laughter—carefree, giddy, maniacal—filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth. "
35 " She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations. "
36 " You’d like for me to show you?” “What do you think?” “All right, Ethan. All right. But I have to warn you...I’m going to ask for something in return. "
37 " Nature doesn’t see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. "
38 " Glimpsed something catching sunlight straight above. Froze. Looked down. "
39 " No socks. No briefs. Guess I’ll roll commando. "
40 " I said this is Boise, but it’s not. There is no Boise, no Idaho, no America. Names no longer mean a thing. "