Chris Howard > Quotes

“Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.”
― Chris Howard

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“I reckoned some things you do best to remember. But sometimes it's best to forget.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“So much death.
So many hearts turned to stone and days that were stolen. The last things living and we were just ripping each other in pieces that could never again be put back whole.
It ends here, I swore to myself. It must end here.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“Zion. Trees. You're talking about heaven, boy. We be heading to hell.'

'I don't know,' I said. 'Could be one's really just the same as the other.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“So I told her what she'd done to my father was beautiful.
And you know what's messed up?
It was sort of beautiful. In it's own horrible way.”
― Chris Howard

“I studied the dusty street, the plastic walls and dries patches of piss. And I guess it was being left with just shantytowns and Steel Cities that got folk started with the tree building. Because even for the rich freaks, life's ugly. But build a tree, and you got something worth looking at. Something worth believing in.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“All ways are the worst way.”
― Chris Howard, Rootless

“You got yourself one weird family, don't you, bud?" said Alpha, swinging the panel shut. And I guess she was right. But you got to take what you can get, I reckon.

You take what you can get.”
― Chris Howard