It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.
Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus.
“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.”
“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.”
“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....”
“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...”
“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...”
“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
“Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all oth...”
“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”
“There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
“Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.”