283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

Our actions, you know? They last forever. Whatever we do, it’ll always be what we did. There’s no taking them back.

That always amazed him: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down solid steel.

What we do going forward defines who we are.” Juliette, Pg. 397.

At this point in my boating education, I didn’t even know what a “norther” was. Nor did I appreciate what happens when wind blows against the direction of a current. I can tell you now what happens: The wind pushing against the flowing water causes the seas to build and build. They go vertical. They get steep. They form cliffs of ocean blue that boats can fall right off. I’d never heard of nor imagined such a thing. Scott and I were about to see such waves up close.

And not just the wilds of sand and dune but the wilds of life, those years in a man’s twenties when he shrugs off the shelter of youth and before he has bothered to erect his own. The tent-less years. The bright and blinding years in which men wander as the planets do.

The silo was something she had always taken for granted. The priests say it had always been here, that it was lovingly created by a caring God, that everything they would ever need had been provided for. Juliette had a hard time with this story.

Were they dead forever, like Allison?

This is what happens when they give you medals for breaking the rules: you forget the rules apply to you.

Often, though, it was the man with the most promises who got the chits, not the one who made people better.