Blake Crouch

“In the world we came from, our existence was so easy. And so full of discontent because it was so easy. How…

— Blake Crouch

“When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.”

— Blake Crouch

“It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed…

— Blake Crouch

“The man behind the divan stood up, the machine pistol quivering in his grasp. There was a flash, Abigail thinking he’d pulled…

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“They didn’t live anymore in a world where life was to be colorful and celebrated. Life had become something you clung to,…

— Blake Crouch

Writing and producing television very much speaks to the extroverted part of my personality. I love collaboration, the joint effort of hundreds…

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“Are you with them?” he whispered again. “With who?” Abigail asked. “The men in masks. There were—Get back!” he yelled and Abigail…

— Blake Crouch

“I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for…

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“I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured…

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“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

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,…

— Blake Crouch

“He curled up, twitching and spasming, the pain stormtrooping through his entire body in agonizing, dizzying, pounding waves. He vomited, but it…

— Blake Crouch

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

— Blake Crouch

“The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find.”

— Blake Crouch

“YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND…

— Blake Crouch

“Blocks ahead, and he could hear, for the first time, the noise.”

— Blake Crouch

“one of those twinges of surreal nostalgia that make you acutely aware of all the living you’ve done and how the choices…

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“When you’re a scientist, your late twenties are so critical. If you don’t publish something big by thirty, they put you out…

— Blake Crouch

“Fear suddenly wore him like a glove.”

— Blake Crouch

“Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in…

— Blake Crouch

“Held it up to the peephole, Theresa felt something break inside her. It was a photo of Ethan lying on a steel…

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“Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour…

— Blake Crouch

“Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars.”

— Blake Crouch

“It had been over fives years since they'd last been together. They talked and held one another and cried, all knowing in…

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“Devlin and I will take our chances on the run.” They rode on in silence, speeding west toward Phoenix now, a massive,…

— Blake Crouch