Joe Hill Quotes

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

For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goa...

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul wo...

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you t...

It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight...

...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

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

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his co...

For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goa...

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

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be a...

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed...

I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...

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

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki...

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

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed f...

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

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

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

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

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound to...

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadi...

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable bless...

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

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

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your li...

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

The dead pull the living down.

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

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

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

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

Humanity is worse than flies.

Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence...

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents...

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

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

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

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

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

Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is p...

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

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experie...

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and ha...

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

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

But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfact...

Sillman looked at his interrogator with hopeless eyes. 'I think while I was passed out, I dreamed ab...

It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight...

...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the w...

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

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

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his co...

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything ex...

Max raised the mallet. He stared into her face and wished he could say he was sorry, that he didn't ...

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul wo...

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you t...

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

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the w...

Max raised the mallet. He stared into her face and wished he could say he was sorry, that he didn't ...

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything ex...

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usu...

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

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

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your li...

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

The dead pull the living down.

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

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

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

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents...

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence...

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

Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

Humanity is worse than flies.

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

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable bless...

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chanc...

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

Whatever your sexual orientation, whatever your ethnicity, whatever your age or personal experience,...

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

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between ...