Quotes by Hugh Howey

“Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.”

“She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.”

“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”

“Hed only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun hed always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one co...”

“Don't get like these assholes and fall in love with the fighting. Then you're just setting off bombs because you like the noise they make.”

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

“Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.”

“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...”

“He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one ...”