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That was always the hardest part, missing you. — Justin Cronin

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

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it. — Justin Cronin

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. — Justin Cronin

Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen. — Justin Cronin

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty. — Justin Cronin

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. — Justin Cronin

A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable. — Justin Cronin

Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you. — Justin Cronin

We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. — Justin Cronin

Who is the monster now? — Justin Cronin

Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people. — Justin Cronin

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

It was love, and only love, that opened your eyes. — Justin Cronin

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. — Justin Cronin

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood. — Justin Cronin

All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known. — Justin Cronin

The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward. — Justin Cronin

Maybe just being alive, and having someone to love who loved you back, was enough. — Justin Cronin

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people. — Justin Cronin

I like creating villains. — Justin Cronin

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings. — Justin Cronin

What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During — Justin Cronin

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one. — Justin Cronin

But she wasn't a little girl, she was a beautiful woman, tall and lovely, with tresses of black hair that curved like cupped hands around her face. — Justin Cronin

He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long. — Justin Cronin

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on. — Justin Cronin

The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear. — Justin Cronin

Writing is a job: you must show up. — Justin Cronin

This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She — Justin Cronin

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age? — Justin Cronin

Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it? — Justin Cronin

We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back. — Justin Cronin

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left. — Justin Cronin

And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore? — Justin Cronin

There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times. — Justin Cronin

This is a writ of commutation, Anthony, signed by Governor Jenna Bush. — Justin Cronin

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad. — Justin Cronin

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

All was a ruin, yet the world did not seem to know or care. In — Justin Cronin

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. — Justin Cronin

We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most — Justin Cronin

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding — Justin Cronin

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. — Justin Cronin

Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist. — Justin Cronin

Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. — Justin Cronin

There were people who were like this, the ones who could not be ruffled or else didn't show it, who possessed great internal reservoirs of calm. — Justin Cronin

Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out. — Justin Cronin

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? — Justin Cronin

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words. — Justin Cronin

From small mistakes come great catastrophes; — Justin Cronin

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up. — Justin Cronin

Absolution is not the same as understanding. — Justin Cronin

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways. — Justin Cronin

I could have held his hand. — Justin Cronin

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step. — Justin Cronin

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way. — Justin Cronin

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. — Justin Cronin

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand - once passed, I thought, time was all the same, all over. — Justin Cronin

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you. — Justin Cronin

Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning — Justin Cronin

So, at the last, a story. — Justin Cronin

To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting. — Justin Cronin

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right. — Justin Cronin

The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet. — Justin Cronin

It was a debt that Peter could never fully repay: the debt of borrowed courage. — Justin Cronin

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. — Justin Cronin

I was very much a child of the Cold War. — Justin Cronin

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. — Justin Cronin

I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I — Justin Cronin

This girl from nowhere. This Amy NLN. Who was alpha, who omega? Who the beginning and who the end? — Justin Cronin

City of memories, city of mirrors. — Justin Cronin

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. — Justin Cronin

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? — Justin Cronin

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock. — Justin Cronin

You are Entering the Red Zone.
Proceed at Own Risk.
When in Doubt Run. — Justin Cronin

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant — Justin Cronin

They always come home. — Justin Cronin

Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train. — Justin Cronin

It was true, what they said about the stars. The more you looked, the more you saw. — Justin Cronin

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

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer. — Justin Cronin

To know and be known: that was the final desire, the heart of love. — Justin Cronin

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. — Justin Cronin

Because that's what heaven is ... it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there. — Justin Cronin

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

I should think it a wonderful thing to be missed, the way that I miss him. — Justin Cronin

We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose. — Justin Cronin

All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As — Justin Cronin

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A — Justin Cronin

All those years, waiting for the Army, and it turns out the Army is us. — Justin Cronin

What is home but a place where you are truly known? — Justin Cronin

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. — Justin Cronin

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid. — Justin Cronin

Doubt is human nature. It's what we do with it that matters. — Justin Cronin

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around. — Justin Cronin

I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away. — Justin Cronin

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world. — Justin Cronin