Justin Cronin Inspirational Quotes (35)

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.