The Silo Saga Omnibus Quotes

“I’m not always as brave as I’d like to be. I falter and fail and give in to the screens in my life. And yet, sailing across vast oceans and into ports unknown taught me something vital: there is nothing out there as dark as our doubts, nor as dangerous as our inaction. Go out. See for yourselves. And if what you find there is broken, know that together we can fix it.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins. It was inevitable.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“just as the world of before had presidents who came and went. Meanwhile, it was the men in the shadows who wielded the true power, those whose terms had no limits. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“there is nothing out there as dark as our doubts, nor as dangerous as our inaction. Go out. See for yourselves. And if what you find there is broken, know that together we can fix it.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, “It’s where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad.” “I”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story—”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“I ponder a different question, one that I fear I cannot answer and that we were never brave nor bold enough to pose. And so I ask you now, dear friend: was this world worth saving to begin with? Were we worth saving?”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“And now he saw that it wasn’t that the pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Thurman told him about the bombs and the violence, how the groups who wore different colors were warring with one another, how these things typically went downhill fast with the barest of nudges, that the formula was as old as time.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Perhaps the game’s numbing powers were the reason it existed at all, why someone had spent the effort to create it, and why subsequent heads had kept it secreted away. He had seen it on Merriman’s face during that lift ride at the end of his shift. The chemicals only cut through the worst of the pain, that indefinable ache. But lesser wounds resurfaced. The bouts of sudden sadness had to be coming from somewhere.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Donald thought about what it cost a family to do a country proud.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“To those who find themselves well and truly alone.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Every generation thinks it lives in unique times. This bias is almost always wrong.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“there is nothing out there as dark as our doubts, nor as dangerous as our inaction.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“wispy”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“then, the lowering of the body and the plucking of ripe fruit just above the graves was meant to hammer this home: the cycle of life is here; it is inescapable; it is to be embraced, cherished, appreciated. One departs and leaves behind the gift of sustenance, of life. They make room for the next generation. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“For those who dare to hope.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“There was disappointment in his voice, as though he were learning that the gods cleaned their asses with water too.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“No fear. Now is for laughing. The truth is a joke and they’re good in Supply. —Walk”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“She took a small bite, and little bursts of happiness exploded in her mouth.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“The temptation might be to blame the media, but we’re the same people who slow down traffic even when the accident is on the other side of the median. We have to look. We are captivated by the awful. We want to know if it’s something we should be concerned about. It makes perfect sense: we are descendants of a million generations of humans, apes, shrews, and lizards who were better safe than sorry. In nature, optimists taste great.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Think about it,” McLain said. “Why are you so riled up? Because you lost a good friend? That happens all the time. No, it’s because you were lied to. And the toppers will feel this ever more keenly, trust me. They live in sight of those who’ve been lied to. It’s the mids, the people who aspire upward without knowing and who look down on us without compassion, that will be the most reluctant.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Jules— No fear. Now is for laughing. The truth is a joke and they’re good in Supply. —Walk”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“But then, the lowering of the body and the plucking of ripe fruit just above the graves was meant to hammer this home: the cycle of life is here; it is inescapable; it is to be embraced, cherished, appreciated. One departs and leaves behind the gift of sustenance, of life. They make room for the next generation. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“I’ve learned over the years to reject any question that gives preeminence to a particular place or time.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“He couldn’t imagine what it felt like to rise with anticipation in the morning, to fall asleep with contentment at the end of the day.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“It’s the mids, the people who aspire upward without knowing and who look down on us without compassion, that will be the most reluctant.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“these people were all rebelling, and now they were gone. This was what happened to those who rebelled.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn’t matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There’s no changing it.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus