Justin Cronin

“The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God,…

— Justin Cronin

“They say that the moment your life appears before your eyes will be your last, but I'm here to say that it's…

— Justin Cronin

“It was more than physical attraction; it was the broken thing inside him she loved most of all, the unreachable place where…

— Justin Cronin

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

— Justin Cronin

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early…

— Justin Cronin

“There was a term he knew and thought of now; he had heard it used only in the context of aviation, to…

— Justin Cronin

“His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s…

— Justin Cronin

“I could have held his hand.”

— Justin Cronin

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies…

— Justin Cronin

“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there,…

— Justin Cronin

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a…

— Justin Cronin

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them…

— Justin Cronin

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let…

— Justin Cronin

“Wolgast recalled when he’d come down here with his friends to buy candy and comic books. Back then, a spinning wire rack…

— Justin Cronin

“It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay…

— Justin Cronin

“For you, hunting the Twelve isn't an answer. It's a question. Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would…

— Justin Cronin

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the…

— Justin Cronin

“How surprising death was, how irrevocable and complete, how much itself.”

— Justin Cronin

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to…

— Justin Cronin

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long…

— Justin Cronin

“It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when…

— Justin Cronin

“The story was never the the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.”

— Justin Cronin

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty…

— Justin Cronin

“In the Macomb household, cocktail hour was religion.”

— Justin Cronin