“It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.”
Source: Beacon 23
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Famous Hugh Howey Quotes
Source: Beacon 23
Source: Dust
“Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way.”
Source: Wool Omnibus
“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”
Source: Dust
“His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.”
Source: Dust
“Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.”
Source: Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
“We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.”
Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
“Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.”
Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
“Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.”
Source: Wool
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
Source: Wool
“"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."”
“Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.”
Source: Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
“some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.”
Source: Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
Source: Wool
Source: Wool
“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”
“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.”
Source: Wool
“That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.”
Source: The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.”
Source: Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
“Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.”