“All year I wondered what would be left if you took the university out of this town, what was beneath the constant hum of classes and books and ideas, of introductions made by major first and name second, and now I know that what’s left behind is me but I don’t know what to do with that answer.”
2012
Pines: Book One of the Wayward Pines trilogy (2012)
“Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone—pitch black.”
Redshirts (2012)
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug.”
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012)
Mark: “What about you? Are you happy?”
Jeremy: “No.”
Mark: “Then shut up about it.”