Quotes by Sylvain Neuvel

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

North Korean troops gathering… inside North Korea.That is unheard of.They were massing very close to the border.North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them to gather very far from the border.

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and theyll be half-decent

You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.

Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose.Of course there is. Only until now, Id been pretty successful at keeping that little brats mouth shut.

We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend.

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while.