410 Quotes by Joe Hill

Your impulse to protect me conflicts with my need to protect my self-respect. Sorry. Besides. I have this vaguely uneasy feeling you’re offering to protect me from you. That’s not doing me a kindness – that’s coercion.

Jude had a private collection.

I have known others who could use totems of their own to turn reality inside out. To reshape it like the soft clay it is. There was Craddock McDermott, who claimed that his spirit existed in a favorite suit of his.

Some work is about lying down for others, I suppose,” he says, and she realizes he is leaping up the last flight of stairs to a wide black glass landing and another set of bronze doors. “And some work is about lifting people up.

Keys turn both ways. You can lock something away... But you can also throw a bolt and set something free.

The human condition: It was contagious, apparently.

Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.

Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.

If you didn’t have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn’t be any fire in your life at all.