Evan Walker Quotes

#1. Once a human named Evan Walker had a dream - a dream it can no longer remember - and in that dream there was a tent in the woods and in that tent there was a girl who called herself humanity, and the girl was worth more to it than its own life.

Rick Yancey

#2. And then Evan Walker kisses me.

Rick Yancey

#3. I dab at the blood with some gauze from the kit, fighting back hysterical giggles. I blame it on the unbearable stress, not on the fact that I'm wiping Evan Walker's ass.

Rick Yancey

#4. They would break his body. Crush his will. Dissect his mind down to the last synapse.
The undoing of Evan Walker had begun

Rick Yancey

#5. 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

#6. I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

Rick Yancey

#7. 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

#8. In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.

Darin Strauss

#9. Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.

Otis Moss III

#10. I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

Rick Yancey

#11. Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.

Evan Harris Walker

#13. I wish my auntie was here."
"I wish my father.. O, what's the use?

William Golding

#14. The more grateful we feel, the more things we receive to feel grateful for. The more loved we feel, the more love we receive. The more beautiful we feel, the more attractive we become.

Denise Coates

#15. 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

#16. The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.
Why didn't he finish her?
Why couldn't he finish her?

Rick Yancey

#17. For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

Geraldine Brooks

#18. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#19. Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

Joe Vitale

#20. I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

Alexander Payne

#21. When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

Rick Yancey

#22. His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield.

Rick Yancey

#23. And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things - or anything - was love.

Rick Yancey

#24. 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

#25. Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing ... Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

Mel Brooks

#26. Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway.

B. J. Daniels

#27. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Myles Munroe