Tunnels Quotes

“Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.
The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.
The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the rest.
The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest.

An Overland warrior, a son of the sun,
May bring us back light, he may bring us back none.
But gather your neighbors and follow his call
Or rats will most surely devour us all.

Two over, two under, of royal descent,
Two flyers, two crawlers, two spinners assent.
One gnawer beside and one lost up ahead.
And eight will be left when we count up the dead.

The last who will die must decide where he stands.
The fate of the eight is contained in his hands.
So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps,
As life may be death and death life again reaps.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay”
― Mark Frost, The Paladin Prophecy

“It occurred to me that grief is like a tunnel. You enter it without a choice because you must get to the other side. The darkness of it plays tricks on you and sometimes you can even forget where you are or what your purpose is. I believe that people, now and again, get lost or stuck in that tunnel and never find their way out.”
― Loretta Nyhan, Empire Girls

“...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...”
― John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“If you entered a tunnel, you can be sure that the tunnel has at least one exit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“A beautifully lit tunnel is more dangerous than a pitch-black tunnel because you may not want to get out! If you dress the evil in a beautiful dress, the evil will be invisible!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.”
― F.R. Maher

“In a dark tunnel all we need is to move because no exit shall ever appear before us by itself! Move is the very exit itself where there seems to be no exit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Reading is like riding through a tunnel and coming out with a new landscape...”
― Nanette L. Avery

“If you're trapped in a tunnel with many open exits, the tunnel can't help you! The exit is in your mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Stars, Seas, Mountains, Bridges, Roads and Tunnels Are Manmade.”
― Irfan Haidar

“- Así que vamos a entrar en un laberinto de antiguos túneles oscuros y putrefactos, llenos de monstruos y criaturas malignas.
Asentí.
- Y puede que haya también algo de radiactividad.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“Sometimes, he would have to hide from track workers or urban explorers. It amazed him how busy the subway tunnels could be with activity. He constantly asked himself why teenagers would want to lurk around those dark tunnels seeking adventure. What was the point? Personally, he hated being down there. Most tunnels were dark, damp, and dirty.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“If you're in an endless tunnel, you don't have to think about where the exit is anymore, you have to build the exit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you enter a tunnel, whatever you do, your mind is always on the way out!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Now certainly Bilbo was in what is called a tight place. But you must remember it was not quite so tight for him as it would have been for me or for you. Hobbits are not quite like ordinary people; and after all if their holes are nice cheery places and properly aired, quite different from the tunnels of the goblins, still they are more used to tunnelling than we are, and they do not easily lose their sense of direction under-ground - not when their heads have recovered from being bumped. Also they can move very quietly, and hide easily, and recover wonderfully from falls and bruises, and they have a fund of wisdom and wise sayings that men have mostly never heard or have forgotten long ago.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“There is no mythology about a solid earth. It is either contiguously “honeycombed,” as it were, with extensive caverns and tunnels, and/or it is hollow and habitable within. The mythic record tells us both is the case.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Testament of the Hollow

“When you enter a dark tunnel, the most important thing that relaxes you there is to think that the tunnel has an exit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No matter how beautiful the inside of a tunnel is, its most beautiful place is where the exit is and the light is seen!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.”
― Rutu Modan, Tunnels

“He shuddered at the idea of digging beneath the surface. It would be stifling, hot, filthy, and dangerous. The ferrets also occasionally commandeered a heavy truck, loaded it with men and material, and drove it, bouncing along, around the outside perimeter of the camp. They believed the weight would cause any underground tunnel to collapse. Once, more than a year earlier, they'd been right. He remembered the fury on Colonel MacNamara's face when the long days and nights of hard work were so summarily crushed.”
― John Katzenbach, Hart's War

“If you see a light at the end of a dark tunnel, you will be happy! What about the tunnel? He becomes unhappy because something different that he hosted in his darkness is now leaving him and returning to his own world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan