283 Quotes by 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

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

We shouldn’t go after these people for what they did. No. We should go after them for what they’re capable of doing. Before they do it again.

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.

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 once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots.

There was no going back. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.

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.

Here’s what I tell the newly elected: the truth is gonna get out—it always does—but it’s gonna blend in with all the lies.” The Senator twirled a hand in the air. “You have to deny each lie and every truth with the same vinegar. Let those websites and blowhards who bitch about cover-ups confuse the public for you.