Top 100 Dan Wells Quotes
#1. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.
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#2. It wasn't my mom at all, it was her sister Margaret - they were twins, and when their faces were masked I could barely tell the difference. Margaret's voice was a little lighter, though, a little more ... energetic. I figured it was because she'd never been married.
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#3. What could I say that wouldn't shock her even more? I need the mortuary because it connects me to death in a safe way? I need the mortuary because I need to see the bodies open up like flowers and talk to me and tell me what they know?
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#4. I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.
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#5. Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.
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#6. Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.
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#7. I smiled. Mom laughed, shaking her head. "That's the punchline? Why is that even funny?" "It's the Pythagorean theorem," said Lauren. "It's a math formula for . . . something." "Right triangles," I said, and looked pointedly at Margaret. "I told you I'd already done geometry.
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#8. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
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#9. It was a simple plan, but he was a simple man, and sometimes simple was good.
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#10. The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
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#11. You are always in control of your own destiny.
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#12. Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.
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#13. I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.
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#14. In the summer I mowed their lawns for five dollars a week; in the winter I shovelled their walks for cups of hot chocolate; and in the fall I raked their leaves for the pure thrill of watching them burn.
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#15. If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.
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#16. You're talking to me and I'm not scary." Said Kira.
"Yes you are!" said Afa.
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#17. He'd have done better if he had a hat, but then I suppose drifters can't be choosers.
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#18. Embalming was like ... I don't know how to describe it. It was like playing with a giant doll, dressing it and bathing it and opening it up to see what was inside.
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#19. Someday I'd have to tell her about Ed Gein, whose mother dressed him as a girl for most of his childhood. He spent most of his adulthood killing women and making clothes out of their skin.
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#20. To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.
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#21. Have you heard about the MacDonald triad?" "Three traits shared by ninety-five percent of serial killers," said Dr. Neblin. "Bed-wetting, pyromania, and animal cruelty. You do, I admit, have all three.
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#22. Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.
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#23. I've picked a side," she said darkly. "And everyone's on it. And that's exactly who I'm going to save.
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#24. You don't have to march into hell every single time they open the gate.
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#25. The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.
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#26. The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
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#27. She had been built to feel nothing, and trained to feel even less. They had made her incomplete ... She was a broken doll, dancing on the end of their strings.
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#29. Enough about body language," said Kira. "I want to practice the link so hit me."
"Hitting you won't make the link easier to detect."
"It's an expression," said Kira.
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#31. Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.
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#32. Marcus smiled back at her nervously, eyeing not only the rifle but the pair of knives he now saw clipped to her belt. Not one knife - a pair of knives. Who needs two knives? How many things does she have to cut at once? He was in no hurry to find out.
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#33. I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end ...
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#34. She would worry about Samm and Marcus when she wasn't running for her life.
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#35. It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.
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#36. They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.
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#37. Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"Thank you for sending me to a therapist, and I'm sorry that I actually need a therapist?
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#38. I'm a sociopath, Mom, I don't love anybody. By definition.'
'Is that an implicit threat?'
'Oh, for the-! No, it was not a threat, Okay, I'm leaving.
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#39. We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?'
'I feel ... ' What do I feel?
I guess that's good enough.
I feel.
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#40. None of this is by accident, and we have to figure out what it all means. She paused. We have to. It's the same old argument I used to have with Mkele: the present or the future. Sometimes you have to put the present through hell to get the future you want.
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#41. This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the death of everything else.
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#42. I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.
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#43. It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
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#44. I promised a friend I'd walk through hell to get her back,' I said. 'Don't make me bring you with me.
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#45. What I want you to do is think long and hard about this. You made us to kill and conquer, and we are doing it better than you ever anticipated. Far better than you could ever do yourselves. You are no match for us. Do not make us your enemy. Confirm.
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#46. Was that the girl who went to Manhattan with you?" Asked Marcus. "I think we owe her a cookie" "I think we owe her a whole damn bakery" said Xochi. "If I wasn't hip deep on the mud, I would kiss her on the mouth
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#47. My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.
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#48. I used to never feel bad about anything, but now...
Well, that's not true. I used to feel bad all the time. I guess the difference is that now, sometimes, I felt good, and the contrast made the bad times that much worse.
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#49. Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.
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#50. Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day.
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#51. What, do you think I sell puppies?
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#52. It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.
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#53. Humans were more than capable of murder all on their own.
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#54. How can it be hard and easy at the same time?" asked Omar.
"It's like a really tall wall," said Anja. "It might be hard to climb, but there's no flying crocodiles to fight off while you do it.
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#55. How many people haven't dies because I killed the Withered that would have killed them? How many people have died because I kicked the hornet's nest and woke the hounds of hell?
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#56. People feared what was different, and whoever was the most different would win the witch-hunt lottery.
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#57. Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?"
"It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak."
Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud."
P303
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#58. Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?
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#59. I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.
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#60. Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.
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#61. This is life ... Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak
the ones too small or too foolish to fight back
die in agony and blood.
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#62. Good morning, Rob,' I said. 'It's always great to see you.'
Mr Monster desperately wanted to stab him.
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#63. Your life is defined by death, and each time you face it you grow stronger. You learn more, and feel more. It sounds stupid to say it like this, but not dying makes you more alive.
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#64. If that moron had told me you had women with you, I'd have let you in a lot sooner
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#65. so you picked the most popular one as your 'look how normal I am' answer if anyone ever asked." I sighed again and shrugged. "Fine, you got me. And
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#66. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.
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#67. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.
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#68. A few nights later we had a neighborhood-watch party, which is where everyone on the street gets together in the Crowleys' yard and talks and laughs and pretends that nothing is wrong, and meanwhile all our empty houses are ripe for burglary.
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#69. Quiet down," said Falin. "Didn't you say something about an ambush and a murderer?"
"Crap, yes," said Marcus, and pulled Kira down behind the escalator. "Also: murderess. Don't be sexist, women can murder people too.
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#70. Trust me," I said, "from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love." He
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#71. Just because someone's in charge of something doesn't mean they're in charge of everything.
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#72. Love is when you find something so great, so ... necessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.
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#73. Trust me, from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love.
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#74. I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
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#75. I'm sorry," he said again. "I think I'm in love. . ." He paused. "I don't think she even knows.
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#76. I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.
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#77. Alone we were just one weird kid who talked to himself and one weird kid who never talked to anyone; together we were two weird kids having a semblance of a conversation. It wasn't much, but it made us look a little more normal. Two wrongs made a right.
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#78. Being partially to blame for your own therapist's death is a tough thing to deal with, especially because you don't have a therapist any more to help you through it. Sometimes irony just kicks you in the teeth like that.
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#79. I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.
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#80. The online world has subsumed the physical one. We live in the future.
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#81. I never thought I had a heart until it was broken. It's hard to see the point of something that only ever causes pain.
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#82. Just because I don't like you very much doesn't mean I don't love you," said Kessler. "I raised you for ten years; you're my daughter whether you like it or not.
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#83. My parents never got along super well, but it had grown worse in the last year before he left. Eventually he moved to an apartment on the other side of town, where he stayed for almost five months while the divorce wound its way through the intestinal tract of the county courts. I
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#84. So, your plan is to murder a superior enemy army," said Tovar, "and then outrun the wind. I'm glad it's so simple.
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#85. You don't get a life until you make one worth living.
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#86. Did that dog just call me a bastard?" asked Sam.
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#87. Isolde took a swig. "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up." She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. "Cheers."
"You better get your fill of the booze now, then," said Xochi. "You'll be drinking for two pretty soon.
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#88. You don't apologize for this Samm, it's love, and love doesn't weigh it's options and pick the best one. Love just wants things and it doesn't know why, and it doesn't matter why, because love is the only explanation love needs.
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#89. Brooke Watson was the most beautiful girl in school, and she was my age, and she lived two houses down from me, and I could pick out her scent in a massive crowd.
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#90. She was acting funny, like she was . . . I couldn't tell. I had trained myself to read visual cues from people I knew well, so that I could tell what they were feeling, but someone like Brooke was illegible to me.
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#91. I chose to follow you," he said, and his voice was deep and rich. "And I'll find you again.
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#92. Ted Bundy," I said. "He killed thirty or so people around the country in the seventies - he's the one they invented the term 'serial killer' for.
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#93. Skousen remembered a world falling apart. Kira remembered a world pulling together to save itself. That was the difference. That was why Skousen and the Senate were too afraid to do what it took to solve this. If it was going to get done, it would have to be the plague babies who did it.
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#94. The documents inbox138 described a world in which money was everything- not just the means of sustaining life but the purpose of living it. ... If that was how the old world worked--if that was all they really cared about--maybe it was better that it had fallen apart. Maybe it was inevitable
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#95. A plaque at the door congratulated her for climbing 1,860 individual stairs, and she nodded as she caught her breath. "Just my luck," she gasped. "I'm going to have the best glutes left in the planet, and there nobody here to see them.
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#96. I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.
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#97. She looked at Woolf. "There's some kind of ... thing."
"That sentence wasn't as helpful as you probably intended it to be," said Marcus.
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#98. That figures," said Mom, stepping in from the landing and closing the door. "The only member of this family with a normal relationship is a sociopath.
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#99. And we're more valuable to you alive," said Marcus.
Delarosa cocked her head to the side. "How?"
"Because, um ... " Marcus grimaced. "I don't actually know, I just assumed because that's what people typically say at this point.
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#100. You want to be happy, that's what everybody wants. You just don't
know what will make you happy.
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