{"author":"Dan Wells","author_id":"Dan+Wells","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["happiness"],"id":11776,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["hate","retribution"],"id":15098,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["free-will","inspirational"],"id":39892,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.''Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["hope"],"id":49607,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["danger","manhattan","new-york-city"],"id":63032,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["dark","fear","scary","yourself"],"id":92130,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe, reproduce, and grow. Dogs do, rocks don't, trees do, plastic doesn't. Fire, by that definition, is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, excreting the waste as ash, and it breathes air just like a human, taking in oxygen and emitting carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads, it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders, it fights for territory, it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are–brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn't settle; fire doesn't tolerate; fire doesn't 'ge.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["fire","pyro","pyromania","pyromaniac"],"id":96549,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.'I'm very bad at co.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["communication","humor","rejection"],"id":100948,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["choice","kira-walker","nandita","purpose","samm"],"id":101113,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["bonfire","fire","pyromania","serial-killer","sociopath"],"id":132265,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}