Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.

— Dan Wells

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

— Dan Wells

Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver

— Dan Wells

The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.

— Dan Wells

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

— Dan Wells

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

— Dan Wells

The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

— Dan Wells

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

— Dan Wells

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

— Dan Wells

This was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right than or the craving would eat me alive.

— Dan Wells