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Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2) QUOTES

Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2) QUOTES

1 " deflating. Then empty. His diaphragm relaxed. He counted to three and squeezed the trigger. The British-made AWM bucked hard against his shoulder, the report dampened by the suppressor. Recovering from the recoil, he found his target in the sphere of magnification, still crouched on a flat-topped boulder on the floor of the canyon. Damn. He’d missed. It was a longer shot than he normally took, and so many "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

2 " midmorning. The sky steel blue and not a cloud in sight. His perch was atop a thirty-foot guard tower that had been built on the rocky pinnacle of a mountain, far above the timberline. From the open platform, he had a panoramic view of the surrounding peaks, the canyon, the forest, and the town of Wayward Pines, which from four thousand feet above, was little more than a grid of intersecting streets, couched in a protected valley. His radio squeaked. He answered, “Mustin, over.” “Just had a fence strike in zone four, over.” “Stand by. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

3 " YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN WAYWARD PINES! "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

4 " If I wanted to bring you down, David, I could’ve done that months ago.” “If I wanted you dead, Agent Hassler—you and everyone you love—there is nothing in the world stopping me from making that happen. Not from prison. Not from the grave.” “So we’ve established trust,” Hassler said. “Perhaps. Or at the very least, assured mutual destruction.” “No difference in my book. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

5 " A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn’t just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn’t tear your eyes away. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

6 " In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

7 " Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.’ Robert Frost wrote that. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

8 " If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. GIST) "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

9 " There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

10 " In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

11 " The endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

12 " All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

13 " We’re a part of something here, Mr. Burke. Something that matters. All of us.” “Here’s the thing, Marcus, and I don’t want you to ever forget it. Nobody fucking asked me or anyone in that valley if we wanted to be a part of this. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

14 " pausing as the first radials of sunlight struck its translucent skin. Its progression down through the boulder field had been slow and careful, stopping occasionally to sniff the remains of others like it. Others Mustin "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

15 " Can’t do this.” There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

16 " It was odorless, but on the tongue the overwhelming note was burn, followed by a strong citrus pucker, and a finish that was mercifully short, like the flavor had just fallen off a cliff. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

17 " It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

18 " It was the fakeness that killed her. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

19 " There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)

20 " What about the truth?” Ethan asked. “In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept. "

― Blake Crouch , Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)