Joe Hill Quotes

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

Humanity is worse than flies.

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.

It’d be a mistake, ” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few, ” Merrin said. “If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

The dead pull the living down.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.""What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

I'm sorry to bother you, " she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.