{"author":"Justin Cronin","author_id":"Justin+Cronin","total_quotes":52,"quotes":[{"text":"Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.'To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English,' Peter said. 'It's taken me most of today to get through a page.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["book","english","moby-dick","reading"],"id":1403,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["blind","drinking","drunk","logic"],"id":20524,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["apocolyptic","morality","religious","sin","thought-provoking"],"id":24308,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["apocalypse","death"],"id":25787,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse?","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["hilarious","incongruous"],"id":42591,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["life-and-death"],"id":42676,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["worry"],"id":47738,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"Absolution is not the same as understanding.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["absolution","understanding"],"id":70099,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"She thought she should take a moment to pray. But, as she was holding a loaded rifle, conventional prayer did not seem entirely suitable. Sister Peg hoped that God would help her, but it was her belief that He much preferred for people to attend to themselves. Life was a test; it was up to you to pass it or not. She raised the gun to her clavicle and angled one eye down the length of the barrel.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["faith","god","guns","life","nun","prayer","rifle"],"id":73414,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["science","fiction","up "],"id":90279,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}