Quotes by Hugh Howey

“Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?”

“We don't all make it out the other side, not all of us. But somewhere, there's the click of a pen, a proud signature, a father's hand on a young man's shoulder, and we reload. That's the sound of o...”

“Maybe he wasnt there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.”

“She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.”

“Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.”

“You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back.”

“just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.”

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”

“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.”

“If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.”

“He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.”

“Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. - Juliette, Pg. 139”

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over ...”

“I hated Sundays as a kid. From the moment I woke up, I could feel Monday looming, could feel another school week all piled up and ready to smother me. How was I supposed to enjoy a day of freedom w...”

“Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women”

“This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.”

“His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.”

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful. Why be careful? Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.'Cause she'll damn well do it....”

“To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221”

“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.”