My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“They said it would change his life. They said this – but their eyes warned him.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“The best thing I ever did in life was nothing, and I got a medal for it. I was a hero once.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“They had left the silo in cleaning suits as all cleaners do, because a life cooped up becomes intolerable, and to stagger… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Like Montana Wildhack, Scott dances for a living. But it's called ballet and wardrobe is involved, so somewhow it's more acceptable.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“their drive to accomplish much in life and also the cause of the damage they so often left behind – this injurious pride.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“it isn’t fair, but if you think life has a bad reputation for that, the military puts it to shame.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“It was easy to blame people for the misery of life rather than blaming the sand. Yelling at the sand got you… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“He became hyperalert at any gathering like this, saw all the tiny details of normal life humming right along. This was when… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“What she had forever seen as her calling -- this living apart and serving the greater good -- now felt more a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare. In a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“It’s this positive outlook on life that got me through three and a half tours of duty and the last six months… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“We can’t tweak the genes of the food we eat without suspicion,” Erskine added. “We can pick and choose the naturally mutated… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Denial is the secret sauce in this town,” he said. “It’s the flavor that holds all the other ingredients together. Here’s what… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as… — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“Overhead, tangles of wires knotted together in a grand display of unplanned infrastructure.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“Montana wants to scream, but the thing she is angry at is in the past. The past can’t hear her. This is the thing,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked. Marck gazed… — Hugh Howey Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“We have allowed a dangerous forest to grow as we try to guard against individual trees.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
“I hated Sundays as a kid. From the moment I woke up, I could feel Monday looming,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share
