Hugh Howey Quotes

We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone.

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Here’s what I tell the newly elected: the truth is gonna get out - it always does - but it’s gonna blend in with all the lies.” The Senator twirled a hand in the air. “You have to deny each lie and every truth with the same vinegar. Let those websites and blowhards who bitch about cover-ups confuse the public for you.

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Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story - the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

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The pressure in the airlock grew, and the folds of her suit found every raised scar across her body, wrinkles pressing where wrinkles had once burned. It was a million pricks from a million gentle needles, every sensitive part of her touched all at once, as if this airlock remembered, as if it knew her. A lover's apology.

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These tales of a world, once beautiful, and now fairly forgotten.

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Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

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Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.

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