Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of und… - Hugh Howey

" "
Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation.

Hugh Howey

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

Full Quote All quotes from Hugh Howey Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Hugh Howey:

Stephen King Margaret Atwood James S. A. Corey Louise Penny Louise Erdrich

Additional quotes by Hugh Howey

And Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them.

I pull her against me, not to make love to her, but just to love her. To hold something good and imperfect and fucked up, and to feel someone holding all of that in return.

This was how it worked. You lived. You did your best. You got out of the way. You let those who come after you choose. You let them decide for themselves, live their own lives. This was the way.

Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it al… - Hugh Howey

Limited Time Offer

Additional quotes by Hugh Howey

Unlimited Quote Collections