The Strain (The Strain Trilogy) Quotes

You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.

Nothing can unman you like an un-man.

Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death.

When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are s*** out of luck.

The term “solar eclipse” is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun’s shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun—causing the shadow. The proper term is “occultation.” The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

The doctor’s code is, ‘First—do no harm.’ The politician’s code is, ‘First—go on television.’

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…

Never fly commercial. That’s the moral of this story.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

In the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.