623 Quotes by James Dashner

How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I’m saying.

It was a folder, marked as plainly as the rest, practically lost within a list of a hundred others that were empty. It was titled KILL ORDER.

It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

She squeezed his in response. “There are over two hundred of us and we’re all immune. It’ll be a good start.” Thomas looked over at her, suspicious at how sure she sounded – like she knew something he didn’t. “What’s that supposed to mean?” She leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek, then the lips. “Nothing. Nothing at all.” Thomas put it all out of his mind and pulled her closer as the last wink of the sun’s light vanished below the horizon.

Mark had always felt like she was his as a simple matter of the situation. Pretty much everyone else she’d ever known had died; he was a scrap left over for her to take, the alternative to being forever alone. But he gladly played his part, even considered himself lucky – he didn’t know what he’d do without her.

So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.

Everything he knew was a result of artificial intelligence. Manufactured data and memories. Programmed technology. A created life.

One must know the problem better than the solution, or the solution becomes the problem.