Hell Is Empty Quotes

“I think insanity runs in the family. Hell, it practically gallops.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“It’s never about who’s the fastest, strongest, toughest—it’s always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Contrary to popular belief, there aren’t that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry around in their heads are from the fourteenth-century poem, which means that our contemporary view of hell is actually from the Middle Ages.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Talking with people was more confusing than being confused by yourself.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“slogans about smoking: “Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don’t get back up.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“From Walt: The Grapes of Wrath, Les Misérables, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moby-Dick, The Ox-Bow Incident, A Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote (where your nickname came from), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and anything by Anton Chekhov. From Henry: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Cheyenne Autumn, War and Peace, The Things They Carried, Catch-22, The Sun Also Rises, The Blessing Way, Beyond Good and Evil, The Teachings of Don Juan, Heart of Darkness, The Human Comedy, The Art of War. From Vic: Justine, Concrete Charlie: The Story of Philadelphia Football Legend Chuck Bednarik, Medea (you’ll love it; it’s got a great ending), The Kama Sutra, Henry and June, The Onion Field, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Zorba the Greek, Madame Bovary, Richie Ashburn’s Phillies Trivia (fuck you, it’s a great book). From Ruby: The Holy Bible (New Testament), The Pilgrim’s Progress, Inferno, Paradise Lost, My Ántonia, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Poems of Emily Dickinson, My Friend Flicka, Our Town. From Dorothy: The Gastronomical Me, The French Chef Cookbook (you don’t eat, you don’t read), Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals From Death Row, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Something Fresh, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, Pride and Prejudice, Brides-head Revisited. From Lucian: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Band of Brothers, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Virginian, The Basque History of the World (so you can learn about your heritage you illiterate bastard), Hondo, Sackett, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Quartered Safe Out Here. From Ferg: Riders of the Purple Sage, Kiss Me Deadly, Lonesome Dove, White Fang, A River Runs Through It (I saw the movie, but I heard the book was good, too), Kip Carey’s Official Wyoming Fishing Guide (sorry, kid, I couldn’t come up with ten but this ought to do).”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“These dreams were so real they left me shaken and unsure of which world I was in.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“It all came down to judging—if you were a good judge of the man in front of you, you might survive; if not, then you were the honored dead.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Life is like that.” He flipped through a few more limp pages. “You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures.” He grunted. “And they are all we are left with.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“Readers are invited to decide for themselves the relative truth of the Native American mysticism that pervades the Walt Longmire novels. What’s never in doubt is Walt Longmire’s tenacity, keen awareness and quick thinking, lively sense of humor, and steadfast adherence to a set of values that sustains him in the face of even the gravest peril. Walt understands how even the most deranged and violent of people think and feel and act. To watch him in action—and to listen to him narrate his own story—is one of the many pleasures of the Walt Longmire mysteries.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“I lowered the binoculars and remembered one of my late wife’s slogans about smoking: “Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“We must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.” She turned, and I could see the tears shining on her cheeks. “More Pascal?” “More Pascal.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“away.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“I wanted to talk to her about Virgil’s prophecy.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“You can convince yourself that you’re on solid ground and nothing’s going to happen to you up to this point, but when you have nowhere to look but down, the game changes. I had the benefit of not being able to see very far, but it was as if the dancing flakes snapping into the distance and disappearing from view were pulling at me, reaching and trying to take me with them into the darkness.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“imagined that he was probably thinking about the same thing I’d be thinking about when my journey ended: about his family, his loved ones—and even the not so loved.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“At least I'm not reading a book by Alexander dumass.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“We must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures.” He grunted. “And they are all we are left with.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“one of my late wife’s slogans about smoking: “Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“It was a year-round, full-service lodge nestled away in one of the southside canyons, with snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, trout fishing, and hunting in season.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”
― Craig Johnson, Hell Is Empty