“Actually, they’re just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Because no matter what had happened in the past, in this harrowing present, everybody needed everybody.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“one of those twinges of surreal nostalgia that make you acutely aware of all the living you’ve done and how the choices… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“I check the time on my drug-dealer flip phone, the one I bought to call Daniela in another Chicago. It won't make… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“There was simply nothing in his experience that even compared with the thrill of killing to protect his family. In this moment,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“There were moments when you saw the people you loved for who they really were, separate from the baggage of projection and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And how… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Yeah, my attitude’s been, Fuck the Forest Service. I’ve been coming up from Arizona every year to spend time in this canyon,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“What she felt toward him wasn’t sadness or nostalgia or even love. It was beyond an emotion she could name. She thought… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“It had been over fives years since they'd last been together. They talked and held one another and cried, all knowing in… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, “You spend time with your son?” “Much as I can,” he’d answered, but his… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“The owner as he crosses the board floor, moving between shelves, past stacked crates and burlap sacks bulging with sugar and flour.… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. - Joseph Heller” — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was meant to… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“It will occur to him months from now that if this had been a movie, he wouldn’t have done it. Wouldn’t have sunk to… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“Daniela hasn’t worn perfume in years, but she’s wearing it tonight, and she smells like Daniela without me, like Daniela before our separate scents… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and made this… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“He worries she’s going to ask what happened. Why he isn’t dead. It’s a question he’s been dreading and preparing for all day.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“What a miracle it is to have people to come home to every day. To be loved. To be expected.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.’ Robert Frost wrote that.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share
“Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together—the thing that makes our whole universe work—comes from a theoretical substance we can’t… — Blake Crouch Copy Share
