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

- Hugh Howey

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

- Hugh Howey

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

- Hugh Howey

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

- Hugh Howey

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

- Hugh Howey

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…

- Hugh Howey

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

- Hugh Howey

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

- Hugh Howey

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.

- Hugh Howey