“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Montana wants to scream, but the thing she is angry at is in the past. The past can’t hear her. This is… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“I hated Sundays as a kid. From the moment I woke up, I could feel Monday looming,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“But this is where we're different. You can see the future and refuse to change it. Where I come from, we can… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.” — 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
“how the groups who wore different colors were warring with one another, how these things typically went downhill fast with the barest… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“But this is where we’re different. You see the future and refuse to change it. Where I come from, we can see… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, “It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Donald froze. When he thawed some time later, Anna was gone, leaving him standing there alone, soaked in guilt.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“The machine they’d uncovered was a living schematic. It really was a message from older times.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“This was how the shift was supposed to go. Waiting and then doing. Sleeping and then waiting. Make it to dinner and… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, with enough time in these walls, one could become resigned to things never getting better, or even changing all that much.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“He awoke each morning with familiar shapes at the edges of his vision, could feel memories nearby, but by the time breakfast… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“There had been a slice of time, somewhere sliding away from him now and fading into the slippery past, where Walker had… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Here one moment, in the great beyond the next. An eyeblink, and a boy becomes his father.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. The cryopods and this hopping… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't think I'm a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“That leaves Bravo Company, the expendables who know what they’re doing.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Overhead, tangles of wires knotted together in a grand display of unplanned infrastructure.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image