Quotes from Joe Hill

I feel like most folks want a book they feel like they have time to finish. You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.

Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They

If he took you camping after he died, my boy, then you would have a story to tell!

In the distance, she could hear the congregation roaring the Talking Heads, bellowing about the sweet release of burning it all down.

Right," said the wolf. He said it "Ro-ight," had a bit of a Liverpoolian accent. Liverpudlian, Saunders corrected himself mentally, randomly. No, Scouse. They called it Scouse, which sounded like a disease, something you might die from after being bitten by a wild animal.

Compreensivelmente, talvez, os fumegantes estavam sempre à beira da histeria. Mas havia uma questão do tipo ovo ou galinha nesse fato: será que eles entravam em pânico porque seus corpos não paravam de soltar fumaça, ou será que soltavam fumaça porque suas mentes estavam em constante estado de pânico?

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

Harper took a can of Spam out of her carpetbag and hunted in the cupboard for something to spread it on.

An old flame," Harper said.

I finally found my way back, Ig. I'm okay. I'm where it's safe.

Remember the stone in her fist.

Era bom isto: ter pela manhã uma conversa normal, sem finalidade, uma conversa que nada tivesse a ver com o fato de o mundo estar pegando fogo.

She thought, too, with a certain calm satisfaction, that if the bridge did crash into the river, ten stories below, and she was smashed in the rubble, it would be her parents' fault for fighting and driving her out of the house, and that would teach them.

As pessoas eram fascinadas pelo fogo e repelidas pelo sofrimento humano, e não seria isso uma espécie de erro de projeto?

Hopefully, over the years of being best friends, Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours, to feel something, to burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Todo dia é 11 de setembro – disse ela. – Como é possível viver quando todo dia é 11 de setembro?

He did not hate his wife, but felt for her the kind of affection a man usually reserves for an excitable puppy. Her immediate acceptance of his every opinion and observation was both disheartening and a little hilarious to him. There was not a single criticism he could offer that she would not immediately accept as true. He made a game out of it.

Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.

O mundo inteiro pode se incendiar à nossa volta – disse Jakob. – Eu vou te abraçar até o fim. Você não vai ter como fugir de mim.

Estou tão cansada – falou. – De sentir medo. De não conseguir ajudar as pessoas.

The Gasmask Man

A gente esquecia que o tempo e o espaço eram uma coisa só até eles começarem a se mover depressa, até os pinheiros e postes de telefonia começarem a passar chispando. Então, no meio de toda essa velocidade, o tempo se expandia, de modo que o segundo que se levava para percorrer sete metros começava a durar mais do que outros segundos.

Snuffleupagus was real. No

Que babaquice sem valor essa coisa de dizer Eu te amo. Amor é só um nome que se dá a uma irrupção de hormônios, com uma pitada de lealdade por cima. Nunca gostei de dizer isso. O que eu digo é: a gente está junto, agora e até o fim. Você tem tudo de que eu preciso para ser feliz. Você me faz me sentir bem.