Hollow World Quotes

“Love is the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your own interests for those of another. It doesn’t matter what sex you are. It doesn’t matter who you are, or were. It only matters that you care more for someone else than you do for yourself. It’s when you eat minlatta with tarragon oil even when you hate pasta because someone with you enjoys it. It’s when you value being alone more than anything but agree to move in with someone because they need you. And believe this, Ellis Rogers, for I am quite certain that love is most certainly when you push away the one person in all the world you want to be with because you think your thoughts would cause them pain.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who’d just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness—that’s life, not the achievement. It’s all about the journey, my friend.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“None of you understand what love really is. It's not lust, or dependence, or infatuation, or familiarity. Love isn't a fondness or butterflies in your stomach."

"Then what is it?" Elis managed to ask.

"Love is the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your own interests for those of another.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“no one would ever demand compensation to keep people alive. You make us sound like monsters, as if people wouldn’t help others unless they got something out of it.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“The fact was the trip sounded dangerous, and Pax didn't strike him as a superhero. Ellis wasn't a hero, either, but he had a pistol and the Y chromosome to use it.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“You’re unique—truly unique. You have hair—and it’s two colors. Your skin sags, and has all those great creases, like a beloved knapsack that has been taken everywhere and shows evidence of every mile. No one else has that.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“If gravity failed, the speed of light was broken, and death and taxes disappeared there would still be Peggy, telling him to be home on time because it was Tuesday and they were having salmon for dinner.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“Ellis Rogers, no one would ever demand compensation to keep people alive. You make us sound like monsters, as if people wouldn’t help others unless they got something out of it.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World

“The 2XL shirt was still too small, leaving an exposed band of pale skin muffining out of his jeans.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World