There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

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He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.