Blake Crouch Quotes
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Blake Crouch Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.
The way it watched him was unnerving - a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn't know how deep it went.
We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we're a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine. She
The day wears on. The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on.
I'm a special agent with the United States Secret Service." "You mean those guys who guard the president?" "That's only one of our duties.
If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?
The cabins scattered across the lower slopes lie buried to their chimneys, and with not a one of them smoking, the air smells too clean.
Her therapist, Christian, would tell her to challenge the thought to use. To stop, take a moment, and analyze the error in it.
I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'"
The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.
They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you
People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That's the storyline, the only plot there will ever be.
A question repeated in the back of Theresa's mind as she washed the purple stains from her hands. How did they finally break you?
I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown!
You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.
What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.
Both, in their own way, thinking, This is hell - the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished. In
Jessica's smile makes Ron slide his hand over the console, let it work down between her blue-jeaned thighs.
Her smile reminded Theresa of a movie star smile - toothy and wide, and if you stared too hard at it, not quite real.
always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The
He figures she must contain a carbon core. A soul as hard as a diamond. So what happens when a diamond finally breaks?
We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.
Your sensitivity is overwhelming," Ethan said. "Someday remind me to explain to you what empathy is.
He also carried that whiff of unearned arrogance that seems to cling to those who crave authority for the sheer sake of power.
Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars.
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?
Money can't buy you happiness, darling. Believe me, I've tried." "But it affords your own brand of misery.
When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
Whole Foods smells like the hippie I dated before Daniela - a tincture of fresh produce, ground coffee, and essential oils. The
Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.
I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.
Knew she didn't need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that accompanied that knowledge.
It begins to go so fast," Fitch said. "What?" "Time. You cling to every second. Savor everything. Wish you'd lived all your days like this. Excuse me.
A soldier shoved him forward, said, "Stand right there and don't fucking move." "Why?" "We have to inspect you." "For what?" "Shut the fuck up.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST
She studied the document. "Looks like a bunch of legalese." "Pretty much." "You wanna give me the CliffsNotes since I didn't go to law school?
Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.
A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled
A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct.
I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do.