Blake Crouch Quotes

Fear suddenly wore him like a glove.

I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead star...

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended?

Were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.

Grew up reading books where vampires were scary. This novel is an attempt to make them scary again. When I thought of the premise that became DRACULAS, I knew it needed to be a group project. Take fou...

Hadn’t the poet Carl Sandburg written about this very thing? Ethan couldn’t recall the verse verbatim, knew only that it had something to do with the voice of the last cricket across the frost. A spli...

Happy man once. You wish you stayed on the beach with Eleanor?

I’m smiling on the inside.

The day wears on.  The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on.

Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn’t see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won’t last, so you revel in it while it’s here.

It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she coul...

I’m curious, she said. All this time, and now you contact me. I’ve followed your journalism career, subscribe to all the magazines you regularly contribute to, and I thought this . . . expedition . ....

Was there even a point to the creation of books and art when humanity lived on the precipice of extinction?

There is a part of me that never left that room in Fallujah that smelled like rancid blood.

Sitting position, tucking his head between his knees. Sensed the instability of the world long before he opened his eyes, like its axis had been cut loose to teeter. His first deep breath felt like so...

But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the be...

What a miracle it is to have people to come home to every day. To be loved. To be expected. I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And ho...

Warm, the sky above a deep and cloudless cobalt. The man checked the pockets of his slacks, and then of his single-breasted coat. No wallet. No money clip. No ID. No keys. No phone. Just a small Swiss...

Did he also instruct you not to bother calling me ahead of time to let me know the feds would be rolling up in my world? Or was that all you? You think I had some obligation to— Courtesy, Ethan. Court...