The Last Star Quotes
"Even the longest journey is a circle, and history will always cycle back to the place where it began."
"Reduce the human population to a sustainable number, then crush the humanity out of it, since trust and cooperation are the real threats to the delicate balance of nature."
"They’re all tricking him. Even Zombie. Even Cassie. Maybe they’re all infested."
"The world is a clock, and the time is coming when the choice between life and death will not be a difficult one."
"Without trust there’s no cooperation. And without cooperation there’s no progress."
"The answer to the human problem is the death of what makes us human."
"The human footprint is about to be wiped clean. What we built over ten millennia will be gone in a day."
"You can’t trust God, either. Even God is a liar."
"I’m not wasting any more time worrying about all the things I don’t know."
"Trust leads to cooperation leads to progress, and there’ll be no more progress."
"A heart full of rage. I’m blowing the bastard who shot him back to Dumbo’s favorite town."
"Might not be the Silencer. Could be a civilian who’s learned the first lesson of the last war."
"Back on Main. Easing up to the corner, I peek around the edge of the building."
"You’re taught to stay in the moment, but the moment I’m in is the one that happens after I’ve neutralized the shooter."
"In the stairwell, the door clicks shut behind me, sealing me inside absolute darkness."
"In a thousand years, you could hold the entirety of the city in the palm of your hand."
"He must have thought he was the luckiest son of a bitch on Earth."
"The first time’s the hardest, she told me. By the time I shot that last soldier at Camp Haven, I felt nothing."
"Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee: How great thou art! How great thou art!"
"I don’t have to be honest in your own private journal, where can you be?"
"Would I wipe out humanity to save Evan? Not likely."
"Evan Walker has biceps. It’s not important to mention this fact, as biceps are muscles most people have."
"Everything is different. Structurally, I mean."
"If the past is what we are, Cassie, I hope not."
"I might have pointed out that we’ve all done things we aren’t proud of, but that was too flippant."
"I pressed his smooth, sweet-smelling face into my neck, and his tears were warm against my skin."
"I’m not expecting performance quality. I can’t carry a tune, either."
"They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They’re the vessels into which human knowledge is poured."
"If the Others can take away trust, they take away cooperation. Take away cooperation, and civilization is impossible."
"Anything we do now is suicide. We’re at the point in the story where we have to choose—a meaningful death, or a senseless one."
"You can’t undo what he’s done, but you can undo him."
"Love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It’s more unstable than uranium."
"A locked room. I don’t know. He shakes his head and laughs. The laugh collapses the moment it’s born."
"These seven billion billion atoms are good with that."
"A disembodied voice boomed in the tiny space. "STAND. UP." He ignored it."
"We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe."
"In situations like this, darkness is your friend."
"I'll stay here. You go find the power station or whatever and get the lights back on."
"Teach him to be patient and to be kind and to trust everyone. Even strangers. Especially strangers."
"What’s the big deal about Christmas? Everything."
"You can blow up half the world and it won’t make it right, it won’t bring her back."
"Cassie didn’t die so I could live. She died for something much bigger than that."
"She won’t fall. Her throne is turned that way so she can keep watch over her realm."