Quotes by Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey

“What we control,” Juliette said, “is our actions once fate puts us there.”

Action

Fate

Our Actions

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

Moisture

Poison

Taste

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

Men

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Darkness

His Smile

Shadow

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

Book

Bored

Twelve

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

Empathy

Miracle

Teaching

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Fall

Men

People

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. 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.

Gun

Men

Thinking

Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story — the dead didn’t say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Bullshit

Hero

Winning

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

Cells

September 11

Years

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Action

Animal

Beautiful

Best Things

Better Off

Blow

Book

Bored

Bullshit

Can Do

Careers

Cells

Clean

Closure

Coming Home

Creeps

Darkness

Discovery

Distraction

Empathy

Epidemics

Fall

Fans

Fate

Fellow Man

Fiction

Forgiving

Found

Generations

Goal

Gun

Hands

Hero

Hints

His Smile

Home

Honest

Horizon

Illusion

Imagination

Inevitable

Kissing

Knots

Knowing

Liars

Life Is

Littles

Long

Loss

Made

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Quotes by Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey

“What we control,” Juliette said, “is our actions once fate puts us there.”

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

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

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story — the dead didn’t say a word. All of it was bullshit.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

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