“ Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. Hugh Howey
“ 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 Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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… Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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 onc… Hugh Howey
“ 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 cou… 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
“ 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 whil… Hugh Howey
“ To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221 Hugh Howey
“ He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course. Hugh Howey
“ Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. Hugh Howey
“ 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. Hugh Howey
