Hugh Howey

“It was all so artificial and manipulative.”

— Hugh Howey

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

— Hugh Howey

“We tend to discover only those things we seek.”

— Hugh Howey

“Cruelty is foiled by compassion.”

— Hugh Howey

“the rapid bonds foreign situations could weld.”

— Hugh Howey

“I may just live long enough to be killed,”

— Hugh Howey

“Follow the tracks laid down yesterday.”

— Hugh Howey

“No more than what we need,”

— Hugh Howey

“Hickson was on the platform with him,” the first boy said. “No way was this an accident.”

— Hugh Howey

“We were told lies about you. I think we even lied to ourselves about you.”

— Hugh Howey

“his balding head a tiny raft bobbing on a sea of pedestrians.”

— Hugh Howey

“Happiness can come solely from within, but not for long - The Bern Seer -”

— Hugh Howey

“She felt like a speck of sand in an alien land, confused as to how it had gotten there.”

— Hugh Howey

“…faking his real life so he can live his fake one.”

— Hugh Howey

“only those who made the laws were allowed to break them.”

— Hugh Howey

“What seemed a fine adventure at sunrise now seemed a mighty undertaking.”

— Hugh Howey

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would…

— Hugh Howey

“The stench of his own waste greeted him as he moved between the tall towers. That wasn't how you were supposed to…

— Hugh Howey

“They had left the silo in cleaning suits as all cleaners do, because a life cooped up becomes intolerable, and to stagger…

— Hugh Howey

“It explains the great quandary of why the most depressed societies are those with the fewest wants.”

— Hugh Howey

“There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and…

— Hugh Howey

“Sorry for her loss. And he had hugged her. Like he knew what she was holding inside, this secret grief that had…

— Hugh Howey

“It’s the part of me that makes me contemplate a fall when confronted with an abyss or some great height.”

— Hugh Howey

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one…

— Hugh Howey

“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished…

— Hugh Howey

“All great discoveries were like this. It was the rare souls full of hope who showed the world what could be done;…

— Hugh Howey

“The pressure in the airlock grew, and the folds of her suit found every raised scar across her body, wrinkles pressing where…

— Hugh Howey

“It was easy to blame people for the misery of life rather than blaming the sand. Yelling at the sand got you…

— Hugh Howey

“There were things that could not be contemplated, he realized. There were potential truths too costly to bear. It wasn’t until after…

— Hugh Howey

“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most…

— Hugh Howey

“It was amazing to Knox that they all knew, instinctively, how to build implements of pain. It was something even shadows knew…

— Hugh Howey

“He became hyperalert at any gathering like this, saw all the tiny details of normal life humming right along. This was when…

— Hugh Howey

“And so I ask you now, dear friend: was this world worth saving to begin with? Were we worth saving? This endeavor…

— Hugh Howey

“Aye, a tip. But only if you solve a riddle.”

— Hugh Howey

“There was so much to do and not enough buckets.”

— Hugh Howey

“the boom. I hear it and I feel it.”

— Hugh Howey

“The tongue mocked him. The mouth was empty.”

— Hugh Howey

“He was as unmoved as a wall of concrete.”

— Hugh Howey

“we could see manmade things. Colony things.”

— Hugh Howey

“His mortality was suddenly everywhere at once.”

— Hugh Howey