283 Quotes by Hugh Howey

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. -Baruch Spinoza.

They were not battling a trained warrior – this was a politician. Pity stirred, then recoiled from her rising wrath. This was the sort of beast that killed with calculations, concocting war and disease and wiping out millions from the safety of a council meeting. She.

And she knew it was time to start getting the images of dead things out of her mind. Or at least, to bury them a while.

We live in a world not of science fiction, but of science fact.

You laughed either to keep yourself sane or because you’d given up on staying that way. Either way, you laughed.

The past lives on forever. There’s no changing it.