Cassie Sullivan Quotes

#1. How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

Rick Yancey

#2. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.

Rick Yancey

#3. Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone makes her hang on even tighter.

Rick Yancey

#4. I was never very good at history, but I was pretty sure douchebags like Hitler didn't laugh very much.

Rick Yancey

#5. However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

Benton MacKaye

#6. Dead things show you what you'll be too one day.

David Mitchell

#7. In you the wars and the flights accumulated,
From you the wings of the songbirds rose.

Pablo Neruda

#8. I thought of the unblemished thing, the thing that lasts, and I thought the only thing with the power to save us also had the power to slay us.

Rick Yancey

#9. Why do we always get the Evan we deserve instead of the Evan we want?

Rick Yancey

#10. Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

Rick Yancey

#11. Oh, Bob. Gonna miss you. Gonna miss you so bad.

Rick Yancey

#12. That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear you and they can't see you and can't feel how really bad you feel, but cry for them. A tear for each of them, fill up the fucking ocean, cry.

Rick Yancey

#13. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. Cassie for Cassiopeia, the constellation, the queen tied to her chair in the northern sky, who was beautiful but vain, placed in the heavens by the sea god Poseidon as a punishment for her boasting. In Greek, her name means she whose words excel.

Rick Yancey

#14. Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

Daniel Pipes

#15. Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Pope Francis

#16. Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.

Rick Yancey

#17. Look, I probably shouldn't tell someone holding a high-powered semiautomatic rifle this, but you're really starting to get on my nerves.

Rick Yancey

#18. Cassie," Sam said in my ear. "Your nose is really big."
"That's because it's broken." Like my heart, kid. It's a set.

Rick Yancey

#19. If your job is to kill us, why didn't you kill me?" I ask.
He answers without hesitating, as if he's decided long before I asked the question what his answer would be.
"Because I'm in love with you.

Rick Yancey

#20. I'm not bitching."
"Yes, you are. You're bitching like a junior miss beauty queen.

Rick Yancey

#21. I really don't have a problem with gay marriage ... because I'm tolerant and rational.

David Cross

#22. I didn't know until then that rage had a taste and it tasted like your own blood.

Rick Yancey

#23. They rest in us and we in them. Our heart contains all others. One heart, one life, on the advent of a mayfly's final flight

Rick Yancey

#24. Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.

Rick Yancey

#25. We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

David Platt

#26. Maybe you're forgetting who saved your life," Ringer said.
"Oh, kiss my ass.

Rick Yancey