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Proper Gauge (Wool, #2) QUOTES

Proper Gauge (Wool, #2) QUOTES

1 " What she had forever seen as her calling -- this living apart and serving the greater good -- now felt more a curse. Her life had been taken from her. Squeezed into pulp. The juice of her efforts and sacrificed years had dripped down through a silo that, just forty levels below her, hardly knew and barely cared. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

2 " One of the things she loved about having [him] around was that his thoughts could be so black as to make hers shine gray. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

3 " Bernard said this last word like it was full of nails and might gut him to spit it out. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

4 " Maybe God would hear her thoughts and rat her out. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

5 " The talk wasn’t necessary. They could just be. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

6 " I reckon he only ever wanted you to be happy. That’s why he was the man for you. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

7 " I’ve been deputy almost as long as you’ve been mayor, Ma’am. Don’t figure on being nothing else but dead one day. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

8 " And she knew it was time to start getting the images of dead things out of her mind. Or at least, to bury them a while. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

9 " Each step was performed reluctantly, knowing how grueling it would be to win that elevation back. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

10 " Better to join a ghost than be haunted by them, Jahns now knew. Better no life than an empty one— "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

11 " Now, each step of their descent could be taken with dread. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

12 " She slept with a man in her arms for the first time in decades, and woke to a bed familiarly empty, but a heart strangely full. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

13 " I’ve been married more to his ghost than to him. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

14 " The older she got, the quicker her mind went to death. Always, in the end, the thoughts of death. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

15 " Each touch of dust on the clouding lenses was a violation, a dirty man touching something pure. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

16 " The days pile up and weigh small decisions down, don't they? That decision not to visit. The first few days slide by easy enough; anger and youth power them along. But then they pile up like unrecycled trash. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

17 " This last line was dangerously close to treason. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

18 " [They] were like the air she breathed, always there, always serving, so necessary as to be ubiquitous and taken for granted. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

19 " I want to see my people, not be seen by them. "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)

20 " Do you think it's natural? Not wandering too far from where we live? "

― Hugh Howey , Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)