Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day. Dan Wells More Quotes by Dan Wells More Quotes From Dan Wells The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Dan Wells lasts world fall Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made. Dan Wells kira strategy made Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves. Dan Wells determination responsibility fall You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you. Dan Wells kira away-from-you choices If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it. Dan Wells ifs This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood. Dan Wells fighting strong dream If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together. Dan Wells asking-why working-together people Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you. Dan Wells survivor land men If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it. Dan Wells no-reason ends reason Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great. Dan Wells embrace creativity world I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud. Dan Wells just-being character hands I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them. Dan Wells good-person said people You don't get a life until you make one worth living. Dan Wells worth-living Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson. Dan Wells soul simple humanity If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place. Dan Wells serial-killer fire order I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. " "Look on the bright side, " said Marcus. Kira waited. "This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. " "I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one. Dan Wells guy real thinking If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off. Dan Wells said lying thinking It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers. Dan Wells killers bigs people I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret. Dan Wells taken hurt thinking Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness. Dan Wells life-is-too-short darkness world
