Sylvain Neuvel

Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose.""Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.

You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent

North Korean troops gathering_ inside North Korea.That is unheard of.""They were massing very close to the border.""North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them to gather very far from the border.

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while.

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

We__e not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there__ be a great many things in it we can__ comprehend.