My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

- Justin Cronin

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

- Justin Cronin

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

- Justin Cronin

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

- Justin Cronin

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

- Justin Cronin

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

- Justin Cronin

On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terr…

- Justin Cronin

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

- Justin Cronin

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

- Justin Cronin