Seize The Night Quotes
"Elsewhere, night falls, but in Moonlight Bay it steals upon us with barely a whisper, like a gentle dark-sapphire surf licking a beach."
"If the night, too, has a special home, our town is no doubt the place."
"Here, if you stand in one place long enough, a lifetime’s worth of adventure will find you."
"I regard it as a blessing. My passage through life is unique."
"Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time."
"Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
"We are the most alive and the closest to the meaning of our existence when we are most vulnerable."
"I don’t hate you because, after all, you are human, too, and therefore have limitations of your own."
"The absence of screams must mean that the child had not yet been touched."
"In the distance, the dog barked again, ferociously this time."
"An awareness that life is a cosmic joke is close to the core of the philosophy by which Bobby, Sasha, and I live."
"Our guiding principles are simple, Do as little harm to others as you can, make any sacrifice for your true friends, be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others, and grab all the fun you can."
"When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie."
"As far as Bobby is concerned, little of real consequence ever occurs farther than half a mile from the beach."
"The ocean is his cathedral, and he hears the voice of God only in the rumble of the waves."
"Trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos."
"I don’t feel compelled to treat any creature as a fellow citizen of the planet, with rights equal to mine and deserving of all courtesies, if it regards me as dinner."
"To poets but also to those whose stomachs curdle at the mention of poetry, birds in flight usually evoke thoughts of freedom, hope, faith, joy."
"The intelligence-enhancement experiments were conducted on monkeys and on hard case lifers transferred from military prisons, but also on dogs, cats, and other animals."
"Because he is, at least for now, a singularity Orson lives with a profound loneliness that I can perceive but never fully comprehend."
"I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived."
"She did, in fact, hope to accomplish great things. She aligned herself with a biological-weapons project solely because this was the only way to obtain the high level of funding needed to realize her design for a gene splicing retrovirus, which she believed could be used to cure many illnesses and inherited disorders."
"The light of the sun is denied to me, but I must not avoid the light of truth, which also burns but anneals rather than destroys."
"To wank is human, to forgive is the essence of Bobbyness."
"Every one ever born into this world ends up like Delacroix. But it’s not an end. It’s just an exit. To what comes next."
"All I know is, I don’t want to end up like Delacroix."
"Most days, it’s easier to believe in broccoli than in God."
"Nothing's what it seems in Wyvern," he said, quoting me.
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"Our convictions and our friends are all we have to get us through times of trouble."
"Friends are the only things from this damaged world that we can hope to see in the next."
"The room was not moving, even if it felt like a ship wallowing in rough seas."
"The purpose of the redundantly armored door was to contain something in addition to men or atmosphere."
"In every surface of the room, the war between light and darkness raged more furiously."
"I was becoming increasingly disoriented. Though I stood still, I felt as if I were moving."
"Nothing's hopeless in this world unless we want it to be."
"Everything goes back to Wyvern, one way or another."
"Beyond suicide. Violent … frenzied self-destruction. We’ve seen … a number of cases. You understand what this means?"
"So you’ll stay the hell out of the way. Let the right people manage this situation. People who know what they’re doing."
"You may think you’re heroes, but you’ll just be getting in the way."
"There’s too much at stake here for us to allow anyone to have an agenda of his own."
"Love is a two-edged sword, rather than a two-edged Wiffle bat or a two-edged Fudgsicle, because love is sharp, it pierces."
"God must have meant for us to laugh through our pain, because He stirred an enormous measure of absurdity into the universe."
"I’ve still got drinking glasses you can smash, serving dishes. We’ll have a couple beers, you can bash the hell out of the TV."
"I couldn’t have ached in more places if I’d spent the past six hours tumbling around in an industrial clothes dryer."
"Mom, I love you, and I always will. But what the hell were you thinking?"
"I washed down two aspirin with a few sips of an Orange Crush."
"Humankind wasn’t meant to travel this far from the beach."
"Don’t worry. Wouldn’t want to take the title away from you, bro."
"We rode through Moonlight Bay in silence, each of us occupied with his or her own thoughts."
"We were not there to bear witness to the dead."
"Ghosts can’t hurt you if you don’t fear them."
"We’ve got to move fast. The whole place is coming apart."
"If she had answered my question with a smile and assurances that she was fine, she would not have been the Sasha Goodall that I love."
"It must be liberating to be without that burden."
"You switch it off before you leave. I can’t."
"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise."
"You ever see any of those maps from the time when they thought the earth was flat?"