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  • Dan Wells Quote #1

    - Szépen vagyunk - mondta anya. (...) Egyetlen családtagunk büszkélkedhet normális párkapcsolattal, az is szociopata.


  • Dan Wells Quote #2

    -¿Qué tiene que ver que sea justo o no? Mira bien, pero muy bien el mundo, Xochi: es un lugar bastante injusto.
    -El mundo, sí -dijo Xochi-. Pero eso no significa que debamos imitarlo. Me gustaría creer que los seres humanos tienen un mayor sentido de la justicia que las fuerzas de la naturaleza

  • Dan Wells Quote #3

    -Es un sueño fantástico -dijo Xochi.
    -Sí -respondió Kira-. Supongo que los sueños fantásticos son lo único que nos queda.

  • Dan Wells Quote #4

    ... if you have the strength to complain, you have the strength to do something about it.

  • Dan Wells Quote #5

    Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

  • Dan Wells Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    Delarosa was trying to save the human race, said Mkele. Her only crime was that she was willing to go too far in order to do it. We decided, briefly, that we didn't want to go along with her, but look at us: We're hiding in a basement, letting Delarosa fight our battles, seriously considering lettering her deploy a nuclear bomb. We are long past the point where we can pick and choose our morality. We either save our species or we don't.

    Yes, said Tovar, but I'd prefer it if we were still worth saving by the end of it.

  • Dan Wells Quote #8

    Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

  • Dan Wells Quote #9

    Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

  • Dan Wells Quote #10

    Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.'
    'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.'
    'But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!'
    'I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.

  • Dan Wells Quote #11

    Hello, Kanta. They're saying interesting things about you on the news, she said. I wondered if you'd survived.
    He didn't, I said. I killed him.
    Silence.
    I killed Mkhai, too, I said. Tens of thousands of years, gone in the blink of an eye.
    Why are you telling me this? asked the voice.
    Because you're next, I said. I'm the demon slayer. Come and get me.

  • Dan Wells Quote #12

    Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

  • Dan Wells Quote #13

    I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between ignoring her completely and abducting her at knifepoint.

  • Dan Wells Quote #14

    I'm on the edge, Neblin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.'
    'Calm down, John,' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.'
    'I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks,' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up and we're damning you all, Neblin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out.

  • Dan Wells Quote #15

    I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

  • Dan Wells Quote #16

    If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

  • Dan Wells Quote #17

    In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe, reproduce, and grow. Dogs do, rocks don't, trees do, plastic doesn't. Fire, by that definition, is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, excreting the waste as ash, and it breathes air just like a human, taking in oxygen and emitting carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads, it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders, it fights for territory, it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are–brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn't settle; fire doesn't tolerate; fire doesn't 'get by.'
    Fire does.
    Fire is.

  • Dan Wells Quote #18

    Isolde took a swig. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up. She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. Cheers.
    You better get your fill of the booze now, then, said Xochi. You'll be drinking for two pretty soon.

  • Dan Wells Quote #19

    It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver

  • Dan Wells Quote #20

    It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

  • Dan Wells Quote #21

    It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

  • Dan Wells Quote #22

    It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

  • Dan Wells Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to inspire you, role models to look up to, and the freedom and courage to make your own choices, no matter how simple or scary or hard or eternal they may be.

  • Dan Wells Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

  • Dan Wells Quote #27

    Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver

  • Dan Wells Quote #28

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  • Dan Wells Quote #29

    The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

  • Dan Wells Quote #30

    The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

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