Snowbound Quotes

“If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound

“It had been over fives years since they'd last been together. They talked and held one another and cried, all knowing in the back of their minds that they could sit on this bed for twenty years, for fifty, but it wouldn't matter. There would be no real catching up, no recovery of lost time, no understanding of the damage the separation had caused. They were different people now--haunted, ridden with scars and nightmares. There was no going back to that stormy July night in Ajo, Arizona. That Innis family was gone, and they would have to find themselves and one another again, start over, and pray that somehow the pieces fit back together.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound

“The most dangerous adversary you’ll ever face is an opponent who’s skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Following a tragedy, grief comes in waves, each bigger than the previous, each carrying a new component of pain.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound

“He was nowhere near ready for court in the morning, but he stayed, running his fingers through Devlin’s hair until she’d fallen back to sleep. Finally, he slid carefully off the bed and walked out onto the deck to gather up his books and legal pads. He had a late night ahead of him. A pot of strong coffee would help.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“began”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Burgers, fries, bad salads, Mormons.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“A standoff fuckoff with God.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“through”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Look,” he said. “See them?” A half mile away, specks filed out of an arroyo and trotted across the desert toward a shadeless forest of giant saguaro cacti that looked vaguely sinister profiled against the horizon.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“daughter,”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Not even the brown, unpeopled waste of northern Arizona rivaled this level of desolation. No sign of human habitation. Endless spruce forests interspersed with patches of turning paper birch—veins of gold from Will’s vantage point.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Though”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“blind.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“They were thirty miles off the eastern bulge of South America, and the stars shone in clustered swarms. Farthest he’d ever been from Sonora. He’d been planning to kill her tonight, but he figured he might as well play it safe, wait until they reached Rio. There was such joy in the anticipation.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“You know who this is.”
― Blake Crouch, Snow Bound

“Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels. His short fiction has appeared in numerous short story anthologies, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and many other publications. Much of his work, including the Wayward Pines series.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound

“Devlin and I will take our chances on the run.” They rode on in silence, speeding west toward Phoenix now, a massive, distant glow on the horizon, like a city on fire.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound

“Scream until the drug took her. 5 They started arriving after four o’clock in the afternoon. By five, Rachael’s disappearance was the lead story on all the local news stations, even in Tucson and Phoenix. When six rolled around, there were more cars parked along No-Water Lane than when the Hasslers had hosted their last Fourth of July barbecue. Come 7:15 P.M., more than forty people had crowded into Will and Rachael’s modest adobe home in Ajo.”
― Blake Crouch, Snowbound