Hugh Howey Quotes

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Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

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Some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

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He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

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My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

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It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

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Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

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My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

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That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

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What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.

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There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

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We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

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When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.

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Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

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It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

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Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

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