Hugh Howey quotes

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight. (Hugh Howey)
I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.
Hugh Howey
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.
Hugh Howey
There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.
Hugh Howey
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
Hugh Howey
My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.
Hugh Howey
Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.
Hugh Howey
When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him. (Hugh Howey)
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.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.
Hugh Howey
That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.
Hugh Howey
Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
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.
Hugh Howey
It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow. (Hugh Howey)
There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.
Hugh Howey
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
Hugh Howey