01UndatedWell, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.Dan Wells / quote ↗
02UndatedHappiness 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 ↗
03UndatedJayden 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 ↗
04UndatedThis was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right then or the craving would eat me alive.Dan Wells / quote ↗
05UndatedIt doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John CleaverDan Wells / quote ↗
06UndatedSow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John CleaverDan Wells / quote ↗
07UndatedThe most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.Dan Wells / quote ↗
09UndatedHello, 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 ↗
10UndatedIt'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 ↗
11UndatedWe're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how youDan Wells / quote ↗
12UndatedI’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…Dan Wells / quote ↗
14UndatedIt'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 ↗
15UndatedDelarosa 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 ↗
16UndatedLast 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 ↗
17UndatedThe most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.Dan Wells / quote ↗
18UndatedI've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad at coDan Wells / quote ↗
19UndatedPeople are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.Dan Wells / quote ↗
20UndatedManhattan 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 ↗
21UndatedIsolde 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 ↗
22UndatedTo us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.Dan Wells / quote ↗
23UndatedIn 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 'geDan Wells / quote ↗
24UndatedMost fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.Dan Wells / quote ↗
