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Joe Hill Quotes | Quotes said by Joe Hill

  • Joe Hill Quote #1

    ... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.


  • Joe Hill Quote #2

    ...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...

  • Joe Hill Quote #3

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #4

    Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

  • Joe Hill Quote #5

    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.

  • Joe Hill Quote #6

    Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when the lights went down, his companions were swallowed by the dark and Carroll found himself essentially alone, shut tight into his own suffocating cabinet of shadows. At times, it required all his will not to hide his eyes, yet his insides churned with a nervous-sick frisson of pleasure. When the lights finally came up, his nerve endings were ringing, as if he had for a moment grabbed a copper wire with live current in it. It was a sensation for which he had developed a compulsion.

    Later, when he was a professional and it was his business, his feelings were more muted - not gone, but experienced distantly, more like the memory of an emotion than the thing itself. More recently, even the memory had fled, and in its place was a deadening amnesia, a numb disinterest when he looked at the piles of magazines on his coffee table. Or no - he was overcome with dread, but the wrong kind of dread.

    (Best New Horror)

  • Joe Hill Quote #7

    Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns... and you're free. To be anywhere. Everywhere. Two places at once. Nowhere. Part of the background hum of the universe.

  • Joe Hill Quote #8

    Does your license plate mean something? Bing asked. En-o-ess-four-a-two?
    Nosferatu, the man Charlie Manx said.
    Nosfer-what-who?
    Manx said, It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.

  • Joe Hill Quote #9

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #10

    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.

  • Joe Hill Quote #11

    Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an inscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives.

  • Joe Hill Quote #12

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #13

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #14

    For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought.

    Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from, he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

  • Joe Hill Quote #15

    God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning...

  • Joe Hill Quote #16

    Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

  • Joe Hill Quote #17

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #18

    He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it was really like falling. He was going too fast and he knew when he came to a stop, it would involve crashing into something, and shattering pain.

    Only as he went on, picking up speed all the time, until with each leap he seemed to sail through yards of darkness, he felt a giddy surge of emotion, a sensation that might have been panic but felt strangely like exhilaration. He felt as if at any moment his feet might leave the ground and never come back down. He knew this forest, this darkness, this night. He knew his chances: not good. He knew what was after him. It had been after him all his life. He knew where he was - in a story about to unfold an ending. He knew better than anyone how these stories went, and if anyone could find their way out of these woods, it was him.

    (Best New Horror)

  • Joe Hill Quote #19

    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.

  • Joe Hill Quote #20

    He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.

  • Joe Hill Quote #21

    He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from, he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

  • Joe Hill Quote #22

    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.

  • Joe Hill Quote #23

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #24

    I am; I was. I want to be.

  • Joe Hill Quote #25

    I liked AC/DC, Lee said. If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.
    What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?
    Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, Myself.
    At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

  • Joe Hill Quote #26

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #27

    I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

  • Joe Hill Quote #28

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

  • Joe Hill Quote #29

    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.

  • Joe Hill Quote #30

    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.

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