Across the Sand Quotes

“Nobody ever values the thing they’re good at, just what they wish they could do better.”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand

“Mega thanks go to my publisher Mariner Books. This is the first novel I wrote knowing I wouldn’t self-publish it. I never realized before now what a jerk my old boss was.”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand

“But there was a dumb line in the sand, an invisible line, and being born on one side of it meant you had to live a miserable life buried alive by the dunes. Being born on the other side meant that you kicked that sand into the wind and did the burying.”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand

“Gloralai picked through the berries for the ones that were about to go bad, leaving the nicest and freshest for later, when they’d be just about to go bad. There was a metaphor here, she thought. A life of practical choices, setting things aside, never daring to reach out and take the choicest option, waiting until it would no longer be as sweet.”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand

“There was nothing. And then there was something. But don’t get used to it.”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand

“when we are no more the world will spin, spin and spin like nothing happened”
― Hugh Howey, Across the Sand