Christopher Pike Quotes

“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
― Christopher Pike, The Eternal Dawn

“Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.”
― Christopher Pike, Red Dice

“One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.”
― Christopher Pike, The Sacred Veil

“Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.”
― Christopher Pike, The Return

“I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”
― Christopher Pike, Remember Me

“But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.”
― Christopher Pike, Remember Me

“Alone in my room, I don’t feel alone. It’s as if I have two shadows instead of one, and this second shadow doesn’t conform to my movements. It follows me, it gives the impression it will never leave me, but it does what it wants. I worry that in time I will do what it wants.”
― Christopher Pike, The Shadow of Death

“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know.”
― Christopher Pike, Remember Me

“Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“But this I have lived five thousand years to learn. Power is as cold as forgotten ashes. Only my love can keep alive the memory of my daughter, the stories of Ray, Arturo, Yaksha, and most of all the grace of Krishna.”
― Christopher Pike, Creatures of Forever

“Why do we live in Spooksville? It’s not just because our families live here. It’s because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I’m doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.”
― Christopher Pike, Aliens in the Sky

“Watch hugged her back and spoke in her ear.
‘I’ll tell you a secret,’ he said. 'I’m never sad around you guys.”
― Christopher Pike, The Hidden Beast

“One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.”
― Christopher Pike

“It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.
A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.”
― Christopher Pike, Chain Letter

“If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.’
'If there really are such creatures in here,’ Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.”
― Christopher Pike, The Haunted Cave

“Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.”
― Christopher Pike, The Wishing Stone

“My Dear Friend,
You do not know me, but I know you. Since you first breathed in this world, I have watched you. The hopes you have wished, the worries you have feared, the sins you have committed–I know them all. I am The Observer, The Recorder. I am also The Punisher. The time has come for your punishment. Listen closely, the hourglass runs low.”
― Christopher Pike, Chain Letter

“Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.”
― Christopher Pike, Remember Me

“That is the difference between you and me. You had only one story to tell.' She stops and grins once more. 'I have millions.”
― Christopher Pike, Whisper of Death

“Let it go, David. It will only stir up old wounds.'
'Who cares about old ones? It’s the new ones that bleed.”
― Christopher Pike, The Blind Mirror