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“You’re trying to hold onto your twenties, just like those poor souls who hold onto their high school days or their petty grudges.”
― T.J. Payne, The Venue

“Love is hard. Love is a fight. Relationships feed the best and the worst in people.”
― T.J. Payne, The Venue

“Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone—pitch black.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations. While he hoarded his chips and held a part of himself back, she went all in. Every time. There were moments when you saw the people you loved for who they really were, separate from the baggage of projection and shared histories. When you saw them with fresh eyes, as a stranger might, and caught the feeling of the first time you loved them. Before the tears and the armor chinks. When there was still the possibility of perfection.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines: The gripping first instalment of the blockbuster Wayward Pines trilogy

“Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren’t rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. Our genome is corruptible, and we so abused this planet that we ultimately corrupted that precious DNA blueprint that makes us human.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“Nature doesn’t see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That’s the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“I wouldn’t ingest anything in this apartment if Pedro Pascal appeared and offered to spoon-feed it to me.”
― Lucy Score, Story of My Life

“Great. So you’re on board. We’re moving to Story Lake, and you can help me spy on the Bishop brothers.”
― Lucy Score, Story of My Life

“A man should never tell a woman he loves her unless he’s willing to burn the world for her.” “I do love you.” “Then where are the ashes?”
― Penelope Barsetti, Bite the Woman That Feeds

“I killed a monster that night but, in some ways, I made two more: Her and me.”
― Matt Shaw, Patchwork

“She was only arrested one day ago, on January 4, 1996.”
― Ryan J. Powell, Eight Cases of Jane