Quotes by James Dashner

They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up.

Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. “Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.

Owr brave little shank!

... Dont feel bad about crying. Ever.

if any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless its a leg, of course.

Hey, Alec, he said.The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he grunted something that kind of sounded like a Yeah?Why are we spending so much time on this side of where we left them?Alec pulled himself out of the bush and looked back at him. Seemed logical. Id think they either followed us out of here to find us, or they were taken by the same yahoos who attacked us. Or... maybe they went to investigate the fire.Mark thought that was all barking up the wrong tree. Or they ran away from the fire. Not every person on earth is as wacky-brained as you, good sir. Most people see a huge roaring inferno coming at them? They decide to cut and run. Just saying.

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.

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

Brenda frowned, then focused on Thomas. “You’re—we’re—doing the right thing.”“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore,” Thomas said, hearing the numbness in his own voice. He desperately wanted sleep. “Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

Im crazy, boy. Im a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

Thomas remembered the image of the Cranks at the windows back at the dorm. Like living nightmares, missing only a death certificate to make them official zombies.

We can’t try to outguess them anymore. Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of what they think I think they think I want to do.”“Huh?” the three of them asked at the same time, confusion transforming their faces.

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.

Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.

Dont ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after theyve put the book down, thinking about the tale thats become a part of them.

“What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldnt be trusted?”

“Just go with it, he thought. You wont figure out anything if you give in to fear.”