Shift (Silo Trilogy #2)

by Hugh Howey

together. Here’s what I tell the newly elected: the truth is going to get out—it always does—but it’s going to blend in with all the lies.”

“You have to deny each lie and every truth with the same vinegar.

truth and lies seemed black and white, but mixed together, they made everything gray and confusing.

poorly. All it took was for a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power, and then pay for their innocent choice.

“Nothing changes until we make it change,”

“Predict the inevitable,” she said, “and you’re bound to be right one day.”

“Tell me how the solution isn’t worse than the problem?”

“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.”

“And how much simpler things would be, how much better for us all, if we had people brave enough to do what was right, instead.”

Liars and dead men—two parties unskilled at dispensing the truth.

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.

The hard things got easier the more you did them. It didn’t make it anymore fun to do the hard things,