“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.”
―
Hugh Howey,
The Unraveling
“That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“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 could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool
“It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.” ― Hugh Howey, Shift
“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.” ― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling
“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, “It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.” ― Hugh Howey, The Stranded
“Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“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. Even if you don't really expect her to.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that.” “We can't control where we are right now,” he mumbled, “just what we do going forward.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“People were like machines. They broke down. They rattled. They could burn you or maim you if you weren't careful. Her job was not only to figure out why this happened and who was to blame, but also to listen for the signs of it coming. Being sheriff, like being a mechanic, was as much the fine art of preventive maintenance as it was the cleaning up after a breakdown.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“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 could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool
“It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.” ― Hugh Howey, Shift
“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.” ― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling
“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, “It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.” ― Hugh Howey, Dust
“If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.” ― Hugh Howey, The Stranded
“Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“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. Even if you don't really expect her to.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that.” “We can't control where we are right now,” he mumbled, “just what we do going forward.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
“People were like machines. They broke down. They rattled. They could burn you or maim you if you weren't careful. Her job was not only to figure out why this happened and who was to blame, but also to listen for the signs of it coming. Being sheriff, like being a mechanic, was as much the fine art of preventive maintenance as it was the cleaning up after a breakdown.” ― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
