283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don’t know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

She was often in danger of forgetting what she was.

No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it’s us discovering it than someone else, right?

Love was earned and hard-fought and cherished. It was Marco’s face and his rough palm on her cheek. It wasn’t something a family got for being a family.

There was something about being sent to one’s death and surviving a baptism of fire upon one’s return that pushed most squabblings into the deepest recesses of one’s mind.

It was what to replace injustice with that very few gave thought to.

I think that, with a lot of art, you just have to be bad at it a long time before the magic happens.

I’d rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

That secret was a powerful drug.