Blake Crouch Quotes

So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there's an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes - a multiverse- where everything that can happen will happen

That’s a perfect clone of Richter’s phone. Has all his voice mails, text history, contacts, data usage, apps. More importantly, every call or text that comes to Richter will first hit us. We’ll have t...

The endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail.

The kids crawled into bed and Dee unlocked the door and went back outside. Walked down to the road and stood at the crest of the pass. Thirty-five miles away, Grand Teton punctured the bottom curve of...

The man behind the divan stood up, the machine pistol quivering in his grasp. There was a flash, Abigail thinking he’d pulled the trigger, the walls of the sitting area lighting up, the snow glinting....

The noise that had drawn him up the ladder was screaming. Human screaming. And what he saw, he didn’t know how to process.

The old woman sat in her leather recliner, the footrest extended, a dinner tray on her lap. By candlelight, she turned the cards over, halfway through a game of Solitaire. Next door, her neighbors wer...

The older I get, the less I understand. I love my son. He means everything to me. And yet, I can’t escape the feeling that I’m failing him. Sending him off to the wolves with nothing but the crumbs of...

The owner as he crosses the board floor, moving between shelves, past stacked crates and burlap sacks bulging with sugar and flour. Jessup? It’s Brady! You in back? The twelve burros crane their scraw...

The people I bring out of suspension to populate my town won’t have Facebook or iPhones, iPads, Twitter, next-day delivery. They’ll interact like our species used to. Face-to-face.

Then silence rushed in.

Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where we...

There is a tactile ache, kneeling here in the dark by the bed of his soon-to-be-six-year-old son in the wake of another day he’s missed completely. His boy is the most perfect and beautiful thing he’s...

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre. Leonard Cohen

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.

There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer.

There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in Western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium l...

This low point isn't the book of your life. It's just a chapter.

We all have evil in us, Steve says. Some more than others. I never knew I had this in me, and it scares me, because I wonder how much of it is still inside. Waiting to come out.

We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we're a part of a much larger and stranger reality that we can possibly imagine.