1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7563
7564
7565
7566
7567
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2305dc1 | The residence sat toward the back of the property, which sloped up across a masterfully landscaped yard shaded with maple and spruce trees, dotted with stone sculptures--fountains, birdbaths, angels--and not a leaf to be seen on the pockets of lush green grass. An engine turned over near the house. Letty stepped off the drive and crawled into a thicket of mountain laurel as a boxy Mercedes G-Class rolled past. Through the branches and tinte.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 2146d30 | Remember how it's a right-then-and-there, in-or-out, yes-or-no proposition?" "I do." "Well, this is exactly like that. I need a yes or no right now. And before you answer, I have to be straight with you. This is beyond dangerous. If it all comes off the rails, you could be killed. If we're caught, you could go to prison for a long time." More silence." | Blake Crouch | ||
| c6a4aa2 | 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." -- | Blake Crouch | ||
| f051116 | And the hair on his arms stood erect and some primal siren sounded in his brain, but mistaking terror for adrenaline, he walked down into the darkness because he'd never felt more alive. | Blake Crouch | ||
| fd6cb7a | I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 24f3d4d | 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. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ce35182 | 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." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 68e1c82 | A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 6236d93 | Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. | Blake Crouch | ||
| f58b075 | They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a2674d0 | 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. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d7d0def | Glimpsed something catching sunlight straight above. Froze. Looked down. | Blake Crouch | ||
| a5b9cd9 | Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; 'Then took...as just as fair and having perhaps the better claim because it was grassy and wanted...the passing there had worn them really about the same, 'And both...in leaves no step had trodden black. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ed64ccf | People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That's the storyline, the only plot there will ever be. | Blake Crouch | ||
| eeebb29 | I think he's trying to preserve our way of life." "For who? Us or him?" | Blake Crouch | ||
| ef9d245 | No socks. No briefs. Guess I'll roll commando. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1a89f27 | 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." -- | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1150298 | What about the abbies?" Ethan asked. "As a food source?" "Yeah." "First off, gross." | Blake Crouch | ||
| ed81c46 | I said this is Boise, but it's not. There is no Boise, no Idaho, no America. Names no longer mean a thing. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1d38923 | At least there was another human being to share the weight of this crushing knowledge. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 607e111 | The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 96acce6 | As you'll find with your son soon enough, letting go is the hardest, greatest thing we can do for them. | Blake Crouch | ||
| dc13066 | The noise that had drawn him up the ladder was screaming. Human screaming. And what he saw, he didn't know how to process. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 66f0b03 | I have everything I need here," he said. "Warmth. Drink. Food. Books." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 3723443 | Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes." | J.A. Konrath | ||
| ccf7c13 | Last year, the morning of the day he died in a nursing home, wasted from age and pneumonia, 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 .. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e34d362 | 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. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 99718e5 | 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." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 68938cd | Run," Scott hissed. "They're coming." | Blake Crouch | ||
| c524d51 | 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." | Blake Crouch | ||
| eaf4ef4 | Pope just smiled. "Don't even think about leaving town." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4184b43 | There is a tactile ache, kneeling here in the dark by the bed of his soon-to-be-six-year-old son in the wake of another day he's missed completely. His boy is the most perfect and beautiful thing he's ever laid eyes on, and he feels, acutely, the inexorable passing of a thousand moments with this little person who will be a man sooner than he can possibly imagine. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 139ac69 | 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 awak.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 6ea8da3 | He stopped listening an hour ago, when he discovered he could tune out completely as long as he interjected an "I hadn't thought of it that way" or "Hmm, interesting" every five minutes or so." | Blake Crouch | ||
| 926fded | I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e5911c8 | Your sensitivity is overwhelming," Ethan said. "Someday remind me to explain to you what empathy is." | Blake Crouch | ||
| fb4a4fb | The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely. | Blake Crouch | ||
| bb672a8 | The kids crawled into bed and Dee unlocked the door and went back outside. Walked down to the road and stood at the crest of the pass. Thirty-five miles away, Grand Teton punctured the bottom curve of the sun and the nearer peaks were catching alpenglow. The snow and the rock the color of peach skin. | Blake Crouch | ||
| fb95206 | WELCOME TO WAYWARD PINES WHERE PARADISE IS HOME | Blake Crouch | ||
| ce052fe | Still he'd only missed his Bronco by a few hundred feet. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 40c7be5 | Grew up reading books where vampires were scary. This novel is an attempt to make them scary again. When I thought of the premise that became DRACULAS, I knew it needed to be a group project. Take four well-known horror authors, let them each create their own unique characters, and have them fight for their lives during a vampire outbreak at a secluded, rural hospital. This is NOT a collection of short stories. It's a single, complete novel.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e5d0c11 | Fear suddenly wore him like a glove. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 063ca18 | There were moments when you saw the people you loved for who they really were, separate from the baggage of projection and shared histories. When you saw them with fresh eyes, as a stranger might, and caught the feeling of the first time you loved them. Before the tears and the armor chinks. When there was still the possibility of perfection. He had never had a clearer picture of his wife, had never loved her more--not even in the beginning.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ba0561a | A soldier shoved him forward, said, "Stand right there and don't fucking move." "Why?" "We have to inspect you." "For what?" "Shut the fuck up." | Blake Crouch |