Gone Michael Grant Quotes

#1. Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room. - Author: Michael Grant

#2. Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '
you, Your Highness. - Author: Michael Grant

#3. No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good?"
"Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you. - Author: Michael Grant

#4. No, I'm not a jerk, Astrid. You know what I am? I'm the guy getting people killed," Sam said quietly. Then, "My head is exploding from it. I can't get my brain around it. I can't do this. I can't be that guy, Astrid, I'm a kid ... - Author: Michael Grant

#5. I like your boyfriend," Dahra said. "Not many guys volunteer to carry ten gallons of diarrhea and vomit."
Lana laughed. "He's not my boyfriend."
"Yeah, well, he can be mine if he wants to be. He's cute. And he carries crap. - Author: Michael Grant

#6. You're staring," Lana said.
"Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys. - Author: Michael Grant

#7. No one vinces me, baby - Author: Michael Grant

#8. Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."
Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day? - Author: Michael Grant

#9. He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple. - Author: Michael Grant

#10. And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka - Author: Michael Grant

#11. Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant. - Author: Michael Grant

#12. Sam knew them fairly well, having actually gone out with Anna on a date once. - Author: Michael Grant

#13. Say it. But ... "
"But what?" he asked.
She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If."
"I love you," he said. - Author: Michael Grant

#14. It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done. - Author: Michael Grant

#15. It's over, Sam. Finally."
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light. - Author: Michael Grant

#16. One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion. - Author: Michael Grant

#17. We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn - Author: Michael Grant

#18. God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then our best friend would get killed. So he made up this story about hell, so we could always say, 'Well it could be worse. It could be hell.' And then we'd keep going. - Author: Michael Grant

#19. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that had happened. Things that might - Author: Michael Grant

#20. Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity. - Author: Michael Grant

#21. Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud.
"Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?"
"Princess," Diana said.
"So, you got a promotion," Caine said. - Author: Michael Grant

#22. The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair.
He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing.
Just sat. - Author: Michael Grant

#23. I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. - Author: Michael Grant

#24. Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation? - Author: Michael Grant

#25. Welcome to the FAYZ. Wherever, whenever or whyever that is - Author: Michael Grant

#26. Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.
She felt no pain.
She saw no light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die. - Author: Michael Grant

#27. If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food. - Author: Michael Grant

#28. And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi. - Author: Michael Grant

#29. People are idiots, Choo. ALways remember that: people are faithless, backstabbing, weak, creepy, stupid, lazy idiots. - Author: Michael Grant

#30. Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off."
"Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?"
Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off. - Author: Michael Grant

#31. Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or maybe you're attracted to dangerous, unbalanced people. But listen up: I'm not Edward and you're not Bella - Lana - Author: Michael Grant

#32. An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel?
No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten. - Author: Michael Grant

#33. It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'"
"That's great," Lana said.
"Invincible. I can't be vinced."
"That's not even a word," Lana said.
"Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said. - Author: Michael Grant

#34. Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong. - Author: Michael Grant

#35. It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter. - Author: Michael Grant

#36. Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. - Author: Michael Grant

#37. Hello, Darkness," Caine said.
Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine.
"Nemesis," Gaia said. - Author: Michael Grant

#38. I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried ... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Author: Michael Grant

#39. She was no longer theirs.
She was his.
And he was hers.
And this was their world. - Author: Michael Grant

#40. The devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip - Author: Michael Grant

#41. Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire. Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio. - Author: Michael Grant

#42. He was still furious at Quinn, but they were - literally - all in the same boat now. - Author: Michael Grant