Blake Crouch Quotes

time-lapse of a replicating virus, — Blake Crouch

I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves. — Blake Crouch

The way it watched him was unnerving - a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn't know how deep it went. — Blake Crouch

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 — Blake Crouch

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait. — Blake Crouch

When your world falls apart, cling to the familiar. — Blake Crouch

The day wears on. The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on. — Blake Crouch

How did one carry on in the face of such knowledge? — Blake Crouch

If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me? — Blake Crouch

It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown. — Blake Crouch

Considering what he'd been through in the last five days, rote hallucinations would've been a welcome return to sanity. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

None of it could hold a candle to the shit-yourself-fear evoked by a charging abby. — Blake Crouch

The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs. — Blake Crouch

[ ... ] suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth — Blake Crouch

I think I finally understand why God went away and left the world to destroy itself. — Blake Crouch

For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare. — Blake Crouch

I was aware of the self-deception, but man will do anything to live with himself. — Blake Crouch

They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you — Blake Crouch

I heard something up ahead. — Blake Crouch

But after absolute loss, it still continues." "What?" "You. Consciousness. There is life after hope, you know. — Blake Crouch

Children's laughter - carefree, giddy, maniacal - filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth. — Blake Crouch

I think he's trying to preserve our way of life." "For who? Us or him? — Blake Crouch

I've found in my life that sometimes the best company is your own. — Blake Crouch

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? — Blake Crouch

What a strange, amazing life. — Blake Crouch

He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice. — Blake Crouch

The older I get, the less I understand. — Blake Crouch

I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown! — Blake Crouch

If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That's how decent people justify bad behavior. In — Blake Crouch

His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. — Blake Crouch

Actually, they're just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment. — Blake Crouch

All your life you're told you're unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It's humanity's anthem. — Blake Crouch

Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die. — Blake Crouch

They were just two people sharing a table, trying to limp through the awkwardness. — Blake Crouch

name on the side of it. His pulse beginning to accelerate, — Blake Crouch

You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

Let my affection for my boys carry me on. — Blake Crouch

Both, in their own way, thinking, This is hell - the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished. In — Blake Crouch

I'm looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach. — Blake Crouch

which does not kill you makes you — Blake Crouch

Several seconds of purchase. — Blake Crouch

sharp edges of reality — Blake Crouch

We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft. — Blake Crouch

I feel like I have little to give. — Blake Crouch

The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely — Blake Crouch

was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through — Blake Crouch

A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled — Blake Crouch

I have everything I need here," he said. "Warmth. Drink. Food. Books. — Blake Crouch

always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The — Blake Crouch

It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath. — Blake Crouch

There's something horribly lonely about a place that's almost home. From — Blake Crouch

instability of the world long — Blake Crouch

When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole. — Blake Crouch

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from. — Blake Crouch

She took him by the hand and led him over — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

Almost fifteen months he's been gone, and every day I wake up, I still don't believe this is really happening. — Blake Crouch

Is this the night sky I've always seen? — Blake Crouch

What about the abbies?" Ethan asked. "As a food source?" "Yeah." "First off, gross. — Blake Crouch

That prick's still your copyeditor?" "Yep. He's such a dick. He was giving me — Blake Crouch

Jessica's smile makes Ron slide his hand over the console, let it work down between her blue-jeaned thighs. — Blake Crouch

The worst moments of your life you never see coming, — Blake Crouch

Better to start off with the glad hand than a middle finger. — Blake Crouch

Among them Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who last year became the first gifted member of the US Senate. — Marcus Sakey

They say all art - whether books, music, or visual - is a reaction to other art, — Blake Crouch

Was as close to human as he'd felt in — Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes. — J.A. Konrath

Abby," Lawrence said, "do exactly what I say, right when I say, no matter how crazy it sounds. — Blake Crouch

You've killed a hundred and thirty people, and you're getting squeamish at sticking your finger up a girl's ass? Some people pay to do it. — Blake Crouch

She took me in when I was lost. When the world stopped making sense. — Blake Crouch

YOU ARE THE ONLY FLOWER OF MEDITATION IN THE WILDERNESS. — Blake Crouch

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? — Blake Crouch

Shit. He was going to need a bigger gun. Not a problem. — Blake Crouch

I'd hate to meet one of those thriller writers in person. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended? — Blake Crouch

Nurse Pam stood up. — Blake Crouch

Whole Foods smells like the hippie I dated before Daniela - a tincture of fresh produce, ground coffee, and essential oils. The — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct. — Blake Crouch

Can't do this. There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion. — Blake Crouch

There is a part of me that never left that room in Fallujah that smelled like rancid blood. — Blake Crouch

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. — Blake Crouch

I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance. — Blake Crouch

The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet — Blake Crouch

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own. — Blake Crouch

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find. — Blake Crouch

That's not the way the human heart works. I can't just amputate what I feel. — Blake Crouch

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. — Blake Crouch

I have good intentions, but ... But what? But all the time I fail. I hurt the ones I love. — Blake Crouch

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST — Blake Crouch

In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept. — Blake Crouch

There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear. — Blake Crouch

You in one piece?" he asked. His pack lay open in the snow and he was cinching the last strap of a crampon onto his boot. — Blake Crouch

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen. — Blake Crouch

it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself. — Blake Crouch