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61 " We are the seeds,” he said. “This is a silo. They put us here for the bad times........But it won’t work.” He shook his head, then sat back on the floor and peered at the pictures in the massive book. “You can’t leave seeds this long,” he said. “Not in the dark like this. Nope......What do seeds do when they’re left too long?” she asked him.He frowned.“We rot,” he said. “All of us. We go bad down here, and we rot so deep that we won’t grow anymore.” He blinked and looked up at her. “We’ll never grow again. "
― Hugh Howey , Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
62 " Walker was the one who had taught Scottie that it’s always okay to admit when you don’t know something. If you couldn’t do this, you would never truly know anything. "
63 " There is no uprising, not really, there’s just a gradual leak. Just the people who know, who want out. "
64 " some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled. "
65 " Holston could feel the vibrations in the railing, which was worn down to the gleaming metal. That always amazed him: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down solid steel. One molecule at a time, he supposed. Each life might wear away a single layer, even as the silo wore away that life. "
66 " And he only distantly felt, but for a tremble of time, the end of him that came next. "
67 " They worked with tools all day. They were going to beat in tech heads, little men like Bernard who sat on their butts and clacked on keyboards like secretaries. "
68 " every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re in the bad place right here. "
69 " One fire burns out another’s burning, one pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish. "
70 " It was the same as color. You could only describe a new color in terms of hues previously seen. You could mix the known, but you couldn’t create the strange out of nothing. "
71 " Some men are like a virus. Unless you want to see a plague break out, you inoculate the silo against them. You remove them. "
72 " The goal will be to hit IT and contain it. Bernard "
73 " She was amazed, once again, at how much of the silo was alien to even her "
74 " The temperatures rising in the slow-moving air like the heat of angered flesh as capillaries squeezed, the blood in them rising to a boil. "
75 " dedicated to anyone who dares dream of a better place. "
76 " 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. "
77 " the horror of holding Marnes in her arms, of feeling that lifeless heft of a body relieved of whatever animates it. "
78 " One of the things she loved about having Marnes around was that his thoughts could be so black as to make hers shine gray. "
79 " He was as unmoved as a wall of concrete. "
80 " had grown old everywhere but in his heart, that one organ he had never worn out because he’d never dared to use it. "