Delays was trying to save the human race," said Male. "Her only crime was that she was willing to go too far in order to do it. We decided, briefly, that we didn't want to go along with her, but look at us: We're hiding in a basement, letting Delays fight our battles, seriously considering lettering her deploy a nuclear bomb. We are long past the point where we can pick and choose our morality. Furthermore, we either save our species or we don't."" Yes," said To var, "but I'd prefer it if we were still worth saving by the end of it.

— Dan Wells

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

— Dan Wells

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

— Dan Wells

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.'' No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.'' But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!'' I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.

— Dan Wells

Hello, Santa. They're saying interesting things about you on the news," she said. "I wondered if you'd survived."" He didn't," I said. "I killed him." Silence." I killed Khan, too," I said. "Tens of thousands of years, gone in the blink of an eye."" Why are you telling me this?" asked the voice." Because you're next," I said. "I'm the demon slayer. Come and get me.

— Dan Wells

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

— Dan Wells

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knife point.

— Dan Wells

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

— Dan Wells

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

— Dan Wells

I'm on the edge, Berlin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.'' Calm down, John,' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.'' I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks,' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up, and we're damning you all, Berlin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out.

— Dan Wells