Lies Quotes
"Darkness so deep, you’d have had to walk off into the wilderness in the old days to experience anything like it."
"Not a streetlight or a porch light. Electricity out. Maybe forever."
"People sat in the dark, afraid. Always afraid."
"Sam had the power to make light. He could fire it in killing beams from his hands."
"The fear had spread. A disease. It leaped from person to person."
"Sam was in the east end, the dangerous part of town, the part Zil had declared off-limits to freaks."
"Kids needed that. They needed to see that someone would still protect them."
"No one wasting batteries, not anymore. Those, too, were in very short supply."
"Perdido Beach, California. At least it used to be California."
"A red sunset. The children all gazed into that red sun."
"Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away."
"She dreams of you, Bradley. She dreams of you...you’re at Knott’s Berry Farm. You’re afraid to go on the ride… Your mother misses you…"
"The kids of the FAYZ, prisoners of the FAYZ, gazed out into a setting sun."
"In my vision I saw all of the children of the FAYZ, older kids, younger, too."
"A vision…A red sunset. The children all gazed into that red sun. But behind them, a devil. A demon."
"When the time comes…when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away."
"He’d spent the day waiting for the blow to fall."
"At noon, when everyone would be scrounging lunch, Zil led Hank, Turk, Antoine, and Lance out of the compound."
"You will use anyone to get what you want. Say anything to get your way."
"I thought for sure that was the net being snagged."
"I’m not a zombie," Brittney said calmly. "I’m an angel."
"The world closed in around Orsay like a soft, warm blanket."
"Hushaby, don’t you cry, go to sleep little baby..."
"You are helping people. You are telling them the truth. Showing them a path."
"She had burrowed up through the wet dirt. How long? Forever and ever."
"I’m trying. What’s going on? I can’t keep doing it and never reaching the end."
"But no matter how hard he peered into the black night, Zil did not see the one freak who would stop him."
"Not another massacre, not another atrocity. Enough! He just wanted to fish."
"And then she saw, in the dim light, the shadow of the monster rising."
"The truth was, Zil hated seeing wounds of any kind. He’d always been squeamish about blood."
"Every type of emotion. Fear. Fury. Even hate. And love."
"What chance was there if Sam had lost it? What chance did Edilio have to fix anything?"
"She rattled the pill bottle on her desk. She pried the top off and looked at what she had."
"He grabbed onto his fear and kicked hard to bring himself around."
"The second claw swiped through the water. It would disembowel him."
"With the last of his strength Quinn reached the surface."
"They came and started burning down our village."
"I see that fire and I just have a bad feeling, Sanjit."
"You never ask me about where I came from."
"We need rules and laws and rights and all," Astrid said. "Because we need to have some justice and some peace."
"I'm not scared," Peace moaned. "No reason to be scared."
"I can't see any way around it," Astrid said. "Everyone has to live by these laws. Normal or freak. Regular citizen or member of the council. Except..."
"You think?" Virtue mouthed, the sound of his voice swallowed by the engine noise.
"We have to get the job done. Me. Why? Because I don't talk, I just do," Albert said.
"We’re going to be here for a while. Maybe for the rest of our lives."
"I think Sam's having some kind of breakdown."
"But you have one last great service left to perform. Mary: you must not leave the children behind to the madness that is coming!"
"It's all about fighting or fleeing. You don't want to fight, do you?"