283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that original.

One departs and leaves behind the gift of sustenance, of life. They make room for the next generation. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.

The Wrath is what Peter named my mood before eight in the morning. Our marriage might’ve survived if we’d only had to do afternoons.

All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell. Troy.

There is no uprising, not really, there’s just a gradual leak. Just the people who know, who want out.

No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

He was an easy man to figure, one of those who had grown old everywhere but in his heart, that one organ he had never worn out because he’d never dared to use it.

The point isn’t that we should expect moral perfection, or that we can know all objective moral truths, only that our smugness should be kept in check and our judgment of past generations should be tempered by recognition of their progress and our own failings. Too often we seem to think that barbarians are in the past and that we’ve reached some pinnacle. I think the climbing never ends.

Apologies weren’t welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.