Quotes from Justin Cronin

so sad she couldn't even cry.

Weren't the question the man had wrong, it was his way of asking it.

On the day of victory, no man is tired. -Arab proverb

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

Everything got blended together. A sensation like pain--only worse, because it wasn't a pain in your body; the pain was in your mind and your mind was you. You were pain itself.

It was funny, Grey thought. Not funny ha-ha but funny strange, the whole idea of time. He'd thought it was one thing but it was actually another.

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

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

It's love that enslaves us.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

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

There's a power at work here, something beyond our understanding. You can call it what you like. It doesn't need a name, because it knows yours, my friend.

what had happened, he said he wanted to go looking for him, make him live up to his responsibilities. But what Jeanette knew and didn't say was that Bill Reynolds was married, a married man;

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

he had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms

the man's name. And the truth was, she didn't mind any of it, not really: not the being pregnant, which was easy right until the end, nor the delivery itself, which was bad but fast, nor, especially

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.

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. —PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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

Auntie had nothing to say to that. Whatever was on this man's mind, it had nothing to do with her. There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times.

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.

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.

That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.