“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You're okay. You'll always be… — Joe Hill Gold Copy Share Image
Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to be mad, she heard her father say, then use it, and don’t be used by it.” — Joe Hill Father Copy Share Image
“they had eaten at a place called Terry’s for lunch, Terry’s Primo Subs in Hampton, which was back in New Hampshire, on… — Joe Hill Hampton Copy Share Image
Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“He looked cold in his little loincloth, so Bing flicked a match and dressed him in a robe of flame” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds.” — Joe Hill Fear Copy Share Image
The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Ambition Copy Share Image
“It was no good being a mother. She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“She breathed deeply and smelled water-logged books, the perfume of rotting cardboard and paper that had dried beneath the furnace of the… — Joe Hill Books Copy Share Image
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can… — Joe Hill Adults Copy Share Image
“Thirty years of overlapping graffiti covered the walls. The individual messages were mostly incoherent, but then perhaps the individual messages were of… — Joe Hill Graffiti Copy Share Image
“Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?" "Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said. "Nosfer-what-who?" Manx said, "It is one of… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Sam Cleary reached the two old men fighting on the ground and used the fire extinguisher for the first time, bringing it… — Joe Hill Fire Copy Share Image
“It’ll always bother you, wondering what you missed out on,” Merrin said now. “That’s how men are. I’m just being practical. I’m… — Joe Hill Regret Copy Share Image
“Vic just laughed at that, didn’t bother to tell him she had pulled his cell phone apart and shoved it in the… — Joe Hill Cell phone Copy Share Image
“Reality had briefly slid aside one of its black, opaque panels, to give him a glimpse of the gears that ticked behind… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat,… — Joe Hill Atheism Copy Share Image
“Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when… — Joe Hill Fright Copy Share Image
I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“All of it. Especially the arrogant notion that the world will end just because humans might not make it through this century.… — Joe Hill Death Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“As she stood there looking about, that radio sound resolved into the bluff baritone of Burl Ives, encouraging all the world to… — Joe Hill Christmas Copy Share Image
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy. — Joe Hill Devil Copy Share Image
“At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.” — Joe Hill Father Copy Share Image
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness. — Joe Hill Bewildered Copy Share Image
“I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.” — Joe Hill Horror Copy Share Image
“Vic had gotten rid of the Hoff years ago. The Hoff was a loser, and Trans Ams were oil-leaking shitboxes. She didn’t… — Joe Hill Football Copy Share Image
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were… — Joe Hill Heart Copy Share Image
“... he thought how the young are pierced by love, innocent bodies torn and ruined for no reason, save that it suited… — Joe Hill Love Copy Share Image
“When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.” — Joe Hill Goth Copy Share Image
“He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the… — Joe Hill Brothers Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.” — Joe Hill Learning Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want to Be.” — Joe Hill Messages Copy Share Image
“Terry was cool, cooler then Ig would ever be, but he was afraid. His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't… — Joe Hill Choices-and-consequences Copy Share Image
“She was trying to pull it up to stick it through his throat, but he had her wrist, kept the blade down… — Joe Hill Adventure Copy Share Image
“It was, I imagine, how bees feel. Not like an individual at all, but like one humming note in a whole world… — Joe Hill Music Copy Share Image
“It is in fact a world of mud and faeces they desire, a world with no Art in it, or anyone like… — Joe Hill Art Copy Share Image
