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21 " Life is too hard and too short not to be with the one you love. So choose me. "
― Blake Crouch , The Last Town (Wayward Pines, #3)
22 " It has altered,” Leven says, “but only slightly. Nitrogen and oxygen, thank God, are still the main components. But the makeup is now one percent more oxygen, one percent less nitrogen. Greenhouse gases have returned to pre–Industrial Age levels. "
23 " The funny thing is, as bad as I am, I don’t have it in me to murder her husband. Is there a fate worse than being halfway evil? "
24 " I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves. "
25 " That's not the way the human heart works. I can't just amputate what I feel. "
26 " This had been her routine going on three years now, and she thought it had been wise not to break it tonight. When your world falls apart, cling to the familiar. "
27 " I don’t know what you want anymore. You murdered an entire town. Your own daughter. Years ago, your wife. Where does it end? Where’s the line?” “There is no line. "
28 " What about the abbies?” Ethan asked. “As a food source?” “Yeah.” “First off, gross. "
29 " The noise that had drawn him up the ladder was screaming. Human screaming. And what he saw, he didn’t know how to process. "
30 " The idea of Wayward Pines was always more important to him than the people who called that town home, and I’m sorry to say, it was more important than any of you. "
31 " Never saw our friends or family. We were forced to marry.” “That didn’t turn out so bad,” she said. Bob held his tongue as he drove through the heart of the curve. "
32 " He growled, “Because I could. Because I am their fucking creator, and creations don’t get to question the one who made them. Who gives them breath. And who can, at any second, snatch it all away. "
33 " I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. "
34 " Fear suddenly wore him like a glove. "
35 " Was there even a point to the creation of books and art when humanity lived on the precipice of extinction? "
36 " You ungrateful fucks! You’d all have died two thousand years ago if it wasn’t for me. I created a paradise for you. Heaven on earth. I’m your God! And you have the audacity to kick God out of heaven!” “I think you got your scripture wrong,” Ethan said. “God didn’t get exiled. It was the other guy. "
37 " He doesn’t know where he is or, for that matter, who he is. A clear mask is lowered to his mouth. The voice—a woman’s—urges him, “Take a long, deep breath, and keep breathing in.” The gas he inhales is warm, concentrated oxygen. It flows down his windpipe and hits his lungs with a welcome burst of heat. Though her mouth is covered, the woman leaning over him is smiling at him with her eyes. “Better?” she asks. He nods. Her face grows sharper. And her voice . . . Something familiar. "
38 " Were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences. "
39 " The people I bring out of suspension to populate my town won’t have Facebook or iPhones, iPads, Twitter, next-day delivery. They’ll interact like our species used to. Face-to-face. "
40 " we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost. "