Casting Off Quotes

“You could mix the known, but you couldn’t create the strange out of nothing.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“She rubbed the charcoal letters with her fingers, transferring some of her friends' black thoughts to herself.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“He was an easy man to figure, one of those who had grown old everywhere but in his heart, that one organ he had never worn out because he’d never dared to use it.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“Bones buried with bones, keeping the secrets held between them safe.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“People didn’t talk softer, they just sounded that way. They didn’t stand further from her, they just seemed more distant.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“She stood still, feeling his presence on the other side of those bars, this boy who knew about stars but nothing about her.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“The silo was something she had always taken for granted. The priests say it had always been here, that it was lovingly created by a caring God, that everything they would ever need had been provided for. Juliette had a hard time with this story.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“One silly woman with fire in her blood stirring the hearts of a legion of fools?”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“She was often in danger of forgetting what she was.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“Swiveling in his old wooden chair, the legs squeaking as if startled by the sudden movement, he glanced at the clock on the wall behind him and surveyed the time imprisoned behind its yellowed and crazed plastic dome.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“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, Casting Off

“Here, a man could think, surrounded by machines quietly doing the same.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“He had only needed to see it once—to kill a man—but even that was too much.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“He ran his hands along the faces of the machines, the flashing lights like happy eyes trying to soothe his anger, the electrical hum like whispers to their master, hoping to calm him.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“No fear. Now is for laughing. The truth is a joke and they’re good in Supply.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“sucked in his breath, and a slice of time hung in the air between them, a pause where hearts did not beat and eyes did not blink.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“I can’t imagine loving in secret like that,” he said. “I can’t imagine needing someone’s permission, like the Pact or a girl’s father, to be in love in the first place,” she replied.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“I think they were lovers in secret,”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“Juliette trusted the darkness to conceal her smile.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“She used to admire people who stood out, but now she could feel herself wary of them.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“to love without sanction,”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“Here was one man who knew of her secret love.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off

“A few lines to spell a man’s doom.”
― Hugh Howey, Casting Off