Opening-lines Quote by Hugh Howey Download Open image ““Dust rained in the halls of Mechanical; it shivered free from the violence of the digging.”” — Hugh Howey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Opening-lines
“I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.” — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“It is better to be thrown mud at than to be grind into the dust.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
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“... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
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“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
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