Michael Grant

Quotes

• “The feature that makes people look at her twice, sometimes with suspicious glances, is her eyes. They are too large, wid...”
• “I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don...”
• “Caine tried to roll to his feet, but something was jabbing him in the crouch. He shook off the stars and saw Edilio stan...”
• “Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill s...”
• “I knew the eyes. I didn’t know the Kraut, but yeah, I sure knew that look. I see it when I look in the mirror, even now....”
• “Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming h...”
• “Don’t jump to—”“I’m not,” Dekka said. “But if that’s what it is, if it’s those things, I’m going to ask you to take care...”
• “You need to think about all that, Sam,” Dekka said. “You’re the leader, after all.”“Not anymore,” he said.Dekka laughed....”
• “God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then our best friend woul...”
• “I’m sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I’m most likely dead now, and I guess if there’s any kind of fairness in the af...”
• “Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances fade...”
• “How am I supposed to feed you?” Drake demanded.“Darkness say to coyote: don’t kill human. Did not say don’t eat dead hum...”
• “It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that...”
• “Hello, Darkness," Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear...”
• “I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have consequence...”
• “If you do bad stuff and don't repent, you go to hell," Orc said, like he was begging for a refutation."Yeah, well, you k...”
• “Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.She felt no pain.She...”
• “Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. "Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a ...”
• “It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great," Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's...”
• “You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoar...”
• “Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring t...”
• “An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel?No...”
• “Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Wo...”
• “This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call i...”
• “At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because...”
• “No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. N...”
• “No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch.""Good," Sanjit said."Good? Why good?""Because when you hold my hand...”
• “And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town.""You mean they aren't powered by giant hamster...”
• “The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the ...”
• “[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: you're secretly a wiza...”
• “Say it. But...""But what?" he asked.She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. ...”
• “One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flas...”
• “But then had come the voice that said, "Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are,whatever the hell you are, ...”
• “But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, ...”
• “You're staring," Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause star...”
• “Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn’t it?“I’ve made some bad decisions,” Caine said, not really meaning to...”
• “Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face...”
• “It's over, Sam. Finally.""Yeah," he said. "I guess it is.""Turn out the light, Sam."Sam reached for the switch and turne...”
• “I am too perfect for Evening," Adam volunteers. "But that's all right." He smiles shyly at Aislin. "I am not too perfect...”
• “I need you both to trust me," Vincent said. "I don't mean that I would like you to trust me. I mean that I need you to t...”
• “I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip...”
• “People are idiots, Choo. Always remmber that: people are faithless, backstabbing, weak, creepy, stupid, lazy idiots.”
• “It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.”
• “Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.”
• “And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.”
• “If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.”
• “They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.”
• “Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.”
• “He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”
• “But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.”