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

- 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

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

- Hugh Howey

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

- Hugh Howey

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a ha…

- Hugh Howey

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

- 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