283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

...Everything we do is left in...like a trail out there, a big ring of decisions. Every action we take-""And mistake.""And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn't matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There's no changing it.

And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar.

The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.

Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.

We live in the present, but our happiness relies heavily on the future. Our mood is as much expectation as experience. Just like in the army, where life in the trenches worked the same way. It was the quiet that jangled the nerves. It was the lead-up before the push more than the push itself. To this day, I grow more faint at the scent of gun oil than I do at the sight of blood.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

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.

You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back.

The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.