Code of Honor Quotes

“And then I found the Code. It was buried under some of the things they’d dumped out of his desk. A piece of loose-leaf notebook paper with Darius’s thirteen-year-old scrawl on it, mounted on a faded sheet of blue construction paper. THE CODE OF HONOR, it said at the top, and underneath were written the seven rules we thought all heroes should live by: 1) Be the strongest of the strong. 2) Be the bravest of the brave. 3) Help the helpless. 4) Always tell the truth. 5) Be loyal. 6) Never give up. 7) Kill all monsters. We were big on killing monsters.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“Albuquerque”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“wrong.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“Words came floating toward us, pieces of sentences. Big, deep words magnified by stadium speakers: “… two-minute warning! … halftime show!” Darius and I locked eyes. In the same moment, we both knew where we were. We were at the Super Bowl. The thing we were inside jerked. Rumbled. Started to move. And then I understood—we were inside a giant stage. One of those enormous platforms they wheel out during the Super Bowl halftime. And we were the halftime show.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“We were made at the motel.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“Julia Gary.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“You were thinking maybe you two could share a room,”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“1) Be the strongest of the strong. 2) Be the bravest of the brave. 3) Help the helpless. 4) Always tell the truth. 5) Be loyal. 6) Never give up. 7) Kill all monsters.”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor

“today’s al-Qaeda attack on the US embassy in Turkey.” My mother sobbed once, and my father closed his eyes. I shook my head, silently pleading with Darius not to say this. Not to do this. But he kept going. “I was once asked to commit atrocities against the Muslim people by the United States government,” Darius said, reading from a piece of paper. “I now choose to lead those same innocent victims in the fight against American tyranny. Today’s strike on the US embassy is merely the first in a series of planned attacks against the United States to”
― Alan Gratz, Code of Honor