Top 90 Dan Wells Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

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2. “Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.”

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3. “Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”

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4. “Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.”

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5. “You are always in control of your own destiny.”

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6. “It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right – John Cleaver.”

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7. “You don’t get a life until you make one worth living.”

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8. “If you can’t know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.”

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9. “I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone’s got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.”

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10. “Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.”

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11. “I am stronger than my trials.”

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12. “Jayden laughed grimly. ‘Press the attack and hope for the best.’ ‘Hope is not a strategy,’ said Kira ‘It’s not plan A,’ said Jayden, ’and it shouldn’t be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.”

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13. “Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.”

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14. “Fear is about things that you can’t control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don’t get scared of yourself because you always know what you’re going to do.”

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15. “I’m the demonslayer. Come and get me.”

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16. “This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.”

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17. “Ted Bundy,” I said. “He killed thirty or so people around the country in the seventies – he’s the one they invented the term ‘serial killer’ for.”

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18. “That’s the problem with depression – it discourages its own treatment. It’s like a virus, almost, perfectly adapted against its only natural predator.”

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19. “It’s not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it’s Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.”

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20. “I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.”

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21. “The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that’s not your only choice.”

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22. “Love’s not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.”

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23. “Humans aren’t defined by death, and they’re not defined by what they lack. They’re defined by their connections.”

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24. “If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.”

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25. “Someday I’d have to tell her about Ed Gein, whose mother dressed him as a girl for most of his childhood. He spent most of his adulthood killing women and making clothes out of their skin.”

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26. “The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”

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27. “Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”

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28. “Life is too short. It’s too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don’t have to wallow in it. We don’t have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.”

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29. “It’s a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.”

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30. “It’s easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we’re doing something.”

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31. “If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.”

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32. “Most fires crackle and pop, but that’s not really the fire talking, it’s the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.”

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33. “Fire is a brief, temporary thing – the very definition of impermanence. It comes suddenly, roaring into life when heat and fuel come together and ignite, and dances hungrily while everything around it blackens and curls. When there is nothing left to consume, it disappears, leaving nothing behind but the ash of its unused fuel – those bits of wood and leaf and paper that were too impure to burn, too unworthy to join the fire in its dance.”

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34. “It was a simple plan, but he was a simple man, and sometimes simple was good.”

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35. “If I’m going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.”

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36. “Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t.”

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37. “Dead bodies are calm and silent – perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.”

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38. “If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.”

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39. “I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.”

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40. “I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.”

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41. “Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that’s not your only choice.”

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42. “Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.”

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43. “I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he’d never felt before. Love.”

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44. “I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end...”

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45. “I promised a friend I’d walk through hell to get her back,′ I said. ‘Don’t make me bring you with me.”

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46. “I didn’t study medicine to watch people die.” -Kira.”

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47. “The monster behind the wall stirred. I’d come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me – it’s far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.”

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48. “I want to talk to you,” she said, “for hours and days and forever, but we can’t right now. Not here, and not while we’re still in danger.”

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49. “You don’t have to march into hell every single time they open the gate.”

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50. “You’re not even happy. You’re throwing away your own life because you love someone who’s not here anymore, and you hate it, and it’s killing you. Love is the worst thing that ever happened to you, but you still love her.”

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