The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3)

by Blake Crouch

Hell is coming to you.

How do you find meaning when you’re one of seven billion? When food, clothing, everything you need is just one Walmart away? When we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost.”

When God’s children rebelled, God laid down a righteous beating.

Does God provide? Check. Does God protect? Check. Does God create? Check. Conclusion? Fucking A.

The truth can be a dangerous thing for the weak-minded.”

“There isn’t going to be some discovery that saves us,” Hassler said. “That puts us back on the top of the food chain.

My loyalty, my devotion to you has been total. If our marriage was a rope, you on one end, me on the other, I was always pulling a little bit harder.

Is there a fate worse than being halfway evil?”

I’m your God! And you have the audacity to kick God out of heaven!” “I think you got your scripture wrong,” Ethan said. “God didn’t get exiled. It was the other guy.”

What it comes down to for me is that I’d rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.

Humanity is meant to explore; we’re meant to conquer, to roam. It’s in our DNA, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.