It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.
Justin CroninIf you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
Justin CroninI'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
Justin CroninAs long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
Justin Cronin