283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

What god would make so much rock below and air above and just a measly silo between?

By the time you’re reading this warning, you’ve already acted responsibly.

There was no going around it, so we tried to race back to the inlet, but the storm was moving too fast. Winds over fifty miles an hour. It hit us all at once like a heavenly fist, a mighty slam of stinging rain and raucous seas.

Maybe God would hear her thoughts and rat her out.

The fact that you are alive is hilarious. The fact that the universe can come to this, that anyone finds it normal, is comically absurd.

The stories we tell ourselves to explain our actions are rarely the true reasons behind those actions. The deeper we look into this, the more we realize how much of it is going on. I said in the last part of this series that we are not rational animals – we are rationalizing animals. We act first, and then we come up with a story for why we acted.

Time slipped away in a familiar manner, and love dwindled as it was tossed back and forth in the form of arguments. It could only go away, everything she saw and everywhere she looked. Money. It disappeared from her accounts no matter how hard she tried to save. Time and love and wealth and anything worth building or wrapping one’s arms around, trying to hold on to it all, eroding like the cascade of sand between two palms, stolen by the breeze.

This is the missing episode of Planet Earth, he realized. They never did a show on the most bizarre life form of them all: humans.

How many laws could she break now that she was in a position to uphold them all?