The Unraveling Quotes

“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“We get no credit for being sane, do we? I get no credit. Even from me.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“You either laughed to keep yourself sane or you laughed because you’d given up on staying that way. Either way, you laughed.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“By the time you got older, you knew to keep a grip on all that you could.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling