He had wandered with innocence and naivete into this web, and now every move would wrap him tighter. Each lie would stick to the others, until one day he would find himself in a tight little cocoon, trapped and suffocating from the thousands of little fibs that living and working in that cursed swamp of a city seemed to require every man to ooze.
Hugh HoweyTag: wool-6
This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.
Hugh HoweyTag: lovers
It's not because we knew” Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. “It's because we did it.
Hugh HoweyTag: wool
He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.
Hugh HoweyTag: revenge anger resentment bitterness
Predict the inevitable”, she said, “and you're bound to be right one day.
Hugh HoweyThere were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots.
Hugh HoweyTag: memories
Happiness can come solely from within, but not for long - The Bern Seer -
Hugh HoweyHe’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.
Hugh HoweyTag: inspirational killing thought-provoking gun-control
Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic curtains.
Hugh HoweyWe can’t tweak the genes of the food we eat without suspicion,” Erskine added. “We can pick and choose the naturally mutated ones until a blade of grass is a great ear of corn, but we can’t do it with purpose. Vic had dozens of examples like these. He rattled them off in the cafeteria that day.” Erskine ticked his fingers as he counted. “Vaccines versus natural immunities, cloning versus twins, modified foods. Or course he was perfectly right. The bastard always was. It was the manmade part that would have caused the chaos. It would be knowing that people were out to get us, that there was danger in the air we breathed.
Hugh HoweyTag: life
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