Top 180 Justin Cronin Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.”

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102. “Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.”

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103. “The world was real and you were in it, a brief part but still a part, and if you were lucky, and maybe even if you weren’t, the things you’d done for love would be remembered.”

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104. “That was the heart of the matter. A new world was coming; a new world was already here. Maybe that was what getting older taught you, when you looked in the mirror and saw the passage of time in your face, when you looked at your sleeping daughter and saw the girl you once were and would never be again. The world was real and you were in it, a brief part but still a part, and if you were lucky, and maybe even if you weren’t, the things you’d done for love would be remembered.”

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105. “She thought she should take a moment to pray. But, as she was holding a loaded rifle, conventional prayer did not seem entirely suitable. Sister Peg hoped that God would help her, but it was her belief that He much preferred for people to attend to themselves. Life was a test; it was up to you to pass it or not. She raised the gun to her clavicle and angled one eye down the length of the barrel.”

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106. “I like to break left when people think I’m going to go right.”

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107. “The end of the world, he’d thought. That’s where he was. The end of the world was Houston, Texas.”

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108. “Writing is a job: you must show up.”

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109. “The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear.”

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110. “He said books were more interesting than people.”

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111. “The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.”

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112. “Doubt is human nature. It’s what we do with it that matters.”

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113. “He knew what he’d see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.”

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114. “I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.”

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115. “Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?”

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116. “Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.”

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117. “What is home but a place where you are truly known?”

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118. “There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.”

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119. “It wasn’t a small thing, to love a person.”

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120. “His son’s transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.”

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121. “All was a ruin, yet the world did not seem to know or care. In.”

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122. “It was as if I’d lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”

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123. “The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.”

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124. “Because the world was not the world, that was the thing, that was the terrible truth he had discovered. It was a dream world, a veil of light and sound and matter that the real world hid behind. Walkers in a dream of death, that’s what they were, and the dreamer was the girl, this Girl from Nowhere. The world was a dream and she was dreaming them!”

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125. “Eustace remembered a day like this one: spring on the cusp of summer, the earth unclenching its fist, thick green leaves, rich with fragrance, fattening the trees. A.”

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126. “From small mistakes come great catastrophes;.”

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127. “By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.”

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128. “I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.”

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129. “Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say “a man” because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?”

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130. “The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant.”

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131. “Everything got blended together. A sensation like pain – only worse, because it wasn’t a pain in your body; the pain was in your mind and your mind was you. You were pain itself.”

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132. “I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.”

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133. “There’s a power at work here, something beyond our understanding. You can call it what you like. It doesn’t need a name, because it knows yours, my friend.”

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134. “The sky above was a vault of blackness-and everywhere, the stars!”

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135. “He was Babcock and he was forever. He was one of Twelve and also the Other, the one above and behind, the Zero. He was the night of nights and he had been Babcock before he became what he was. Before the great hunger that was like time itself inside him, a current in the blood, endless and needful, infinite and without border, a dark wing spreading over the world.”

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136. “We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.”

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137. “One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.”

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138. “Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone.”

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139. “Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitude. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.”

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140. “Events grabbed hold of you and in the blink of an eye there you were, with sore knees and a sour stomach and a face in the mirror your barely recognized, wondering how all of it had happened. If that was really your life. The.”

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141. “This isn’t a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she’s still out there, she’s waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her.”

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142. “This is where we leave you. The sentries at the gate will tell you what to do.”

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143. “The memory was unpleasant; he’d taken an instant disliking to the man. Compounding Peter’s distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.”

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144. “So, whenever I’m writing, I’m writing in the presence of all the other books I’ve read and I think we all are.”

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145. “When he decided they weren’t police, he realized he’d been thinking maybe they were.”

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146. “When they come, they come from above.”

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147. “In her mind’s eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death’s great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

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148. “Because the game was the world’s natural state. Because the game was war, it always was, and when wasn’t there a war on, somewhere, to keep a man like Richards in good employ?”

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149. “To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality – not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.”

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150. “There was, Alicia realized, a single hour that all the days since your birth pointed you toward. What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path – the one chosen for you – was visible.”

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