Top 15 Hugh Howey Quotes

After a while, you're staying mad just to justify an old mistake. Then it's just a game. Two people staring away, refusing to look back over their shoulders, afraid to be the first one to take that chance.

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

I call this the Relativistic Weekend Effect. We live in the present, but our happiness relies heavily on the future. Our mood is as much expectation as experience.

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.

His discovery was that evil men arose from evil systems, and that any man had the potential to be perverted. Which was why some systems needed to come to an end.

It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.

Maybe the kinds of people who try to shape the world feel like they’re smarter than chaos itself.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

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.

Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.

That word means something else, you know,' his father had told him once, when Mission had spoken of revolution. 'It also means to go around and around. To revolve. One revolution, and you get right back to where you started.

He was a good man, but he had a broken heart. That’ll take even the best of them down.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

It's not because we knew” Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. “It's because we did it.

I’m here because they haven’t made a computer yet that won’t do something stupid one time out of a hundred trillion. Seems like good odds, but when computers are doing trillions of things a day, that means a whole lot of stupid.