Company Quotes

“I also remember catching the eye of the few conscientious objectors in the terminal, the people opposed to the war but afraid to speak up. There was no hate in their eyes, only pity. Sadness. Knowledge that I might be necessary, but that we shouldn’t be proud that I was necessary. That’s how I saw myself and my company by the end of my second tour. I didn’t hate what we did so much as hate the need for it all. No one should applaud this. We should bow our heads not in thanks but in sadness.”
― Hugh Howey, Company

“No one should applaud this. We should bow our heads not in thanks but in sadness.”
― Hugh Howey, Company

“I remember the rule for semicolons; the sentences on both sides have to be full ones. Full people. Whole.”
― Hugh Howey, Company

“I didn’t hate what we did so much as hate the need for it all. No one should applaud this. We should bow our heads not in thanks but in sadness.”
― Hugh Howey, Company

“Maybe this is the ideal remedy for depression: a gun that can read your mind and is forever pointed at your head. Gives you some good practice in bottling up those dark wishes.”
― Hugh Howey, Company

“Like I said, I’m not very good at this job.”
― Hugh Howey, Company