Joe Hill: Trending quotes

“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”

“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”

“There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.”

“Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.”

“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”

“Because love requires context.”

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

“Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

“Horror was rooted in sympathy… in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

“I am; I was. I want to be.”