Hugh Howey

"Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact."

- Hugh Howey

"Strange the lengths I’ll go to in order to keep people away from me, considering how lonely I feel most of the time. I guess that’s the strange torment I suffer: dying for company, for someone to talk to, but it’s never the right someone who shows. And an unwelcome presence is far worse than the miserable silence."

- Hugh Howey

"Just a handful of days like this and Jimmy felt a new Rule of the World: man wasn’t meant to live alone… he spoke with the machines instead. They clacked back at him and hissed deep in their metal throats that man wasn’t supposed to live at all."

- Hugh Howey