Quotes from Scott Nicholson

have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and have modern medicine deal with it. In After, there were no insurance plans. She leaned against a tree, its rough bark rubbing her spine as she sneaked a look down the forested slope. The Blue Ridge Mountains were

was fogged by their combined breath, the night seemed to grow colder and more mysterious, with only the brightest stars burning pinpricks in the aurora.

Although animals didn't die off to the same extent humans did, they were affected by the solar storms, too. Franklin was just glad his goats and chickens hadn't turned on him, but goats were pretty weird even without mutations.

neck. Loves country music—Merle and Waylon

One of his sayings is, 'When the walls fall down, all we have left is the enemy within.

You have to really dislike someone to impose a sentence of involuntary and uncompensated writing on them.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That's how I've become a successful author.

Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving?

You had to hand it to the devil: long odds never dampened his enthusiasm one bit. David

compassion and humanity are the first casualties of any war.

If there was any American value worth adopting, it was a willingness to fight and die for freedom. More

Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

Heaven looked like a lonely place. And

It wouldn't be heaven without a dog, would it?

hazy October sky. A muted lime-green aurora shimmered behind the clouds as if the black birds were swimming against a frothy tide. The hardwood trees on the surrounding Appalachian slopes were gone to gold and scarlet, and the strange light hinted at the gray winter waiting ahead. One of the crows

Everyone has these leaks, as the poker players call it. A leak is something that drains your income, something that has nothing to do with your work. And it's often something you're not willing to give up.

Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications.

Faith without works is dead

sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it.

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

Heather Graham was raising children while making the time to write what has now become 100 novels.

Yeah. The crazy people. The ones who changed after the solar storms." "We've all changed." She couldn't argue with that, [...] "You may have noticed that we - that is, if you are one of us - are no different. Morally, you could make a case that ours is a greater sin, because we're aware of our violent actions." [...] "You're aware you're giving a morality lecture to a woman you've tied to a chair, right?

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

As they entered the house, Adam realized that people never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.