Quotes by Justin Cronin

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.

You are Entering the Red Zone.Proceed at Own Risk.When in Doubt Run.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

All things found their ends.

His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse?

He has to come to it on his own.

Kittridge closed his eyes. So, the end. It would happen instantaneously, a painless departure, quicker than thought. he felt the presence of his body one last time: the taste of air in his lungs, the blood surging in his veins, the drumlike beating of his heart. The bomb was dropping toward them.Ive got you, he said, hugging Tim fiercely; and again, over and over, so that the boy would be hearing these words. Ive got you, Ive got you, Ive got you, Ive got you.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

“In her minds eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; deaths great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”