24 Quotes by Greg Van Eekhout

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.

There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.

Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.

Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then stuffing it down your pants to see what happens.

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive.

Because we’re not what we eat. We’re what we do, and what we sacrifice, and what we love. And if we choose right more often than we choose wrong, we become who we want to be.