Top 100 Dan Wells Quotes
#1. This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.
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#2. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
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#3. She thought no one could see her. I thought she was beautiful.
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#4. Curing RM is in the realm of magical pixies and talking dogs that piss whiskey. It's impossible.
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#5. I think,' I said, watching his face for a reaction, 'that fate wants me to become a serial killer,'
He raised an eyebrow; nothing more. I told you he was calm.
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#6. The old world had been consumed with the search for More Stuff. Now there was more stuff than anyone could ever use, and little or none of anything else.
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#7. 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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#8. Please help me, I begged her silently. "I'm fine." I'm not fine, and I am going to kill someone, and I don't know if I'll be able to stop "I'm fine, let's go back.
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#9. 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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#10. 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?
Dan Wells
#11. 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.
Dan Wells
#12. It's like ... time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
Dan Wells
#13. Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.
Dan Wells
#14. I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira.
Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.
Dan Wells
#15. Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.
Dan Wells
#16. After Max's outburst at lunchtime, he steered clear of me the rest of the day, and after school, I rode out to Freak Lake to think. The leaves had long passed the bright orange phase and faded into brown, and the grass on the side of the road was stiff and dead.
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#17. 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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#18. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
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#19. If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.
Dan Wells
#20. Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.
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#21. It was a simple plan, but he was a simple man, and sometimes simple was good.
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#22. The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
Dan Wells
#23. You are always in control of your own destiny.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.
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#27. Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings.
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#28. That's not because I'm dead, it's because I'm smart.
Dan Wells
#29. 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.
Dan Wells
#30. Somehow it felt appropriate that the only person who thought I was sweet was a woman who lived with a demon.
Dan Wells
#31. If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.
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#32. I didn't study medicine to watch people die. -Kira
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#33. You're talking to me and I'm not scary." Said Kira.
"Yes you are!" said Afa.
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#34. He'd have done better if he had a hat, but then I suppose drifters can't be choosers.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. That chick makes the monsters under my bed have nightmares.
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#40. Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.
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#41. 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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#42. Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.
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#43. You don't have to march into hell every single time they open the gate.
Dan Wells
#44. If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.
Dan Wells
#45. I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.
Dan Wells
#46. 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.
Dan Wells
#47. Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.
Dan Miller
#48. The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
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#49. 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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#51. 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.
Dan Wells
#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Could I stop myself? Once I tore that wall down, could I rebuild it? Did
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#56. I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end ...
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#57. She would worry about Samm and Marcus when she wasn't running for her life.
Dan Wells
#58. It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.
Dan Wells
#59. Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
Dan Quayle
#60. If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.
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#61. 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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#62. Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver
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#63. I was talking too much, and I knew I was talking too much, but I couldn't stop. It was like my brain had been cut open, and every thought inside was spilling out on the floor.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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.
Dan Wells
#67. What was it my father used to say? she thought. "I am stronger than my trials." I am stronger than my trials.
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#68. Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. That's when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don't mess with animals.
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#69. I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.
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#70. No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in.
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#71. 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.
Dan Wells
#72. 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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#73. I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.
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#74. It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Anyone can see that he's bad," said Marcus, speaking calmly, "but we've splinted it, we've wrapped it, and I can drug him so hard he'll think he's flying home on a magical gumdrop rainbow. You could get high on his farts." "Patterson
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#78. 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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#79. My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.
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#80. Moral," said Vale."That's an interesting adjective to apply to 'genocide'.
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#81. 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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#82. It's like ... I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter.
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#83. Nobody told nature what to do.
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#84. 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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#85. Nobody watched people that much, and for that long, except me, and I had serious emotional problems.
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#86. People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.
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#87. 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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#88. What happened to you was done out of a fear of extinction, and while that doesn't make it excusable, it at least makes it understandable.
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#89. The project I did last year was on Jeffrey Dahmer,' I said. 'He was a cannibal who kept severed heads in his freezer'
'I remember now,' said Max, his eyes darkening. 'Your posters have me nightmares. That was boss.'
'Nightmares are nothing,' I said. 'Those posters gave me a therapist.
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#90. What, do you think I sell puppies?
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#91. It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.
Dan Wells
#92. Humans were more than capable of murder all on their own.
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#93. 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.
Dan Wells
#94. 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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#95. It's good to see you," Said Haru.
"You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel".
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#96. People feared what was different, and whoever was the most different would win the witch-hunt lottery.
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#97. 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."
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#98. Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?
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#99. I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.
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#100. Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.
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