Quotes from James Dashner

Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he'd sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

Oh, man," he mumbled with a full mouth. "At least the food is good.

If you ain't scared," Alby said, "you ain't human. Act any different and I'd throw you off the Cliff because it'd mean you're a psycho.

Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life.

For some reason, he was different from everyone else in the Glade. He felt like he'd lived an entire lifetime since awakening from his memory wipe, but he'd only been there a week.

I know you," Gally added without looking back. "I saw you in the Changing, and I'm gonna figure out who you are.

The world is changing

Fine," he said after a long stare down with his leader. "But if they do jump you and slit your throat, we'll get along just fine without ya." "Thanks for the kind words, hermano.

It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.

What did we do differently?" "I don't know. It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

And despite the fact that they all had their eyes open, every one of them looked dead.

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

I'm gonna kill you, shuck-face!

Why are we up here?" Mark asked. Alec pointed a finger at him. "Because it's what you do when someone comes to your house and attacks your people. You fight back. I'm not going to let these bloodsuckers get away with that crap.

There was so much to do. No time for sleeping. But he was so, so tired.…

Why isn't anybody here?" Minho asked. He turned in a circle, searching the place. "If they're holding people in there, why no guards?

I know," he finally responded. "But it was so … vicious. So brutal. I wish I could've just shot him from a distance with a gun or something." "Yeah. Sorry it had to go down that way." "What if I see his nasty face every night when I go to sleep? What if he's in my dreams?" He felt a surge of irritation at Brenda for making him stab the Crank—maybe unwarranted when he really considered how desperate they'd been.

He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.

But what about all those dead people we saw? Maybe they rescued us for real, got killed, and now we're screwed. Maybe we were supposed to do something, but now it's all been messed up and we've been left here to die.

Losing parts of your memory didn't make you an idiot.

I swear, Chuck," he whispered to no one. "I swear I'll get you back home.

The anticipation of fighting was almost worse than the fear of it.

Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.

Must lead to where the … ya know … Grievers live," he said when finished. "The Griever Hole," Thomas added.