Third Shift Quotes

“You need to hear what I have to say," she said. Donald waited. What explanation or apology was there? She had taken from him what little Thurman had left behind. Her father had destroyed the world. Anna had destroyed Donald’s. He waited to hear what she had to say.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact

“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as bodies need space in which to fall.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact

“The hard things got easier the more you did them.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact

“Donald reached for the straw and steered it toward her lips. Such dangerous lips. They would tell him anything, keep him confused, use him so that she might feel less hollow, less alone.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact

“Days passed until they threatened to make a week, and Jimmy could glimpse how weeks might eventually become months. Outside the steel door in the upper room, the men outside were trying to get in. On the radio, they yelled and argued. Jimmy listened sometimes, but all they talked about were the dead and dying and forbidden things, like the great outside.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact

“Follow the tracks laid down yesterday.”
― Hugh Howey, Third Shift: Pact