The Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2)

by Guillermo del Toro

But in the end, it was just us. All of us. We allowed it to happen because we never believed it could happen. We were too smart. Too advanced. Too strong.

there’s something about maternal love—it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.”

Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing—and to know the thing is to command it.

In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.

sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.”

Apocalypse is a big word, a heavy word, when you realize you are actually facing it.

We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…”

“All symbols are eternal. They exist even before we dream of them…”

We don’t discover, we don’t learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten…”

“This world is a motherfucker, isn’t it?” Angel nodded and said, “But it’s the only one we have.”