167 Quotes by Dan Wells

What did I do that I didn’t have to do? That was always the question. Figure out what we choose when we’re free to choose anytime and you’ll know who we really are.

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.

She would worry about Samm and Marcus when she wasn’t running for her life.

I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

We think we’re invincible, and then one little crack, and boom, out comes more blood and guts and screams than you’d ever thought could be inside a single body. And when that blood goes, everything else goes with it – breath, thought, movement. Existence. One minute you’re alive and then suddenly you’re not.

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

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

Nobody told nature what to do.

You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.