“We held each other clumsily, four legs proving more stable than two, as we joined the others in running. Running and surviving.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“We survive in order to struggle. Struggling means we’re winning.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“When the headlights hit us, the rays acted like a steel blade slicing through our indecision. Our thoughts and plans fell away—as did our logic and ability to reason. All that remained was the urge to flee.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“I wanted to leave my decision-making behind, along with my responsibility for all future ones.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“Another thing I noticed was how quickly the human brain paired causal events. “A” leads to “B.” We love to make that link, however tenuous.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego—my sense of belonging to this universe—and made all else seem insignificant by comparison. “It’s”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“we could see manmade things. Colony things.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“straight shot. It’ll come via a circuitous route. Not just to delay the discovery but to confound your tracking. We sincerely hope you get it, this message from an aborted being that managed to revive and sustain itself, even with so much going against it. We live and we are on the cusp of prospering. Our planet holds secrets that could transform entire worlds into organized, precious metals—a treasure you will never claim.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“you were never designed to have freedom. You have a job to perform.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“a reminder of the day we were born underwater and on fire.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“We labored to understand before we learned how dear knowledge had become, that in the war between nations to dominate so much new territory, ideas had transmuted into a new currency recognizable to all and immediately transferable. Intellectual property rights now serve as an ephemeral gold, weightless and invisible, priceless artifacts one can slip into the folds of his or her brain and smuggle anywhere, undetected.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“I felt worse than blind—I felt cursed with an inability to perceive even the void.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“And why wouldn’t Pete have said something to me about him going?”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“Intellectual property rights now serve as an ephemeral gold, weightless and invisible, priceless artifacts one can slip into the folds of his or her brain and smuggle anywhere, undetected.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“the exhaustion and mania of near-death popping in my brain like tiny bubbles.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“She had arrived at the last stages of some disassembly line, one we all were traveling down and couldn’t seem to get off.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“Hickson was on the platform with him,” the first boy said. “No way was this an accident.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
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“Saying good-bye to Ben is Sarina's least favorite activity. So sad the number of times she's had to do it. Ball games, recitals, the homes of friends, rented shore houses, through car windows after dropping off some forgotten camera to Annie. Goodbye. See you later. Nice seeing you. She has mastered it: A dismissive peck on the cheek. A hug like an afterthought. Telling herself, Do not watch him walk away. Watching him walk away. Watching him drive away. Watching him descend the stairs to the subway. How many times have they said goodbye to each other? Already tonight, twice.
He interrupts her before she can get the second goodbye out.
"How would you feel," he says, "about missing your train?"
Once at the beach, Sarina watched a crane bathing in a gully at dusk. It used its wings to funnel the water over its back, then shook out the excess in a firework of droplets. After several minutes it took off, arcing out over the fretless sea. That felt like this.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, quote from 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
“Es por ello por lo que algunos amigos le acusaron de no conocer «a fondo» a sus personajes, a lo que él replicó que «sólo los imbéciles creen saberlo todo». El”
― Anton Chekhov, quote from Stories
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Maziar,” he said sarcastically. “Don’t play games with me, or you will make me angry again. Don’t tell me that you don’t know about these parties where men and women start with dinner and drinking alcohol and then go to the swimming pool, where they eat chocolate off each other’s bodies.” I sat silently, trying to picture it. How on earth does one eat chocolate off another person’s body in a swimming pool? I had a picture in my mind of chocolate floating on the surface of the water, and then I began to imagine the mixed taste of chlorine and chocolate.”
― Maziar Bahari, quote from Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
“he looked up through the passenger window, kissed his hand, and waved. I did the same.”
― Renee Carlino, quote from Swear on This Life
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
― Mark Twain, quote from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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