THURSDAY QUOTABLES is a weekly book meme hosted by the lovely Book Shelf Fantasies
This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just beautifully written, THURSDAY QUOTABLES is where my favourite lines of the week will be…and you’re invited to join in.
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THE FIREMAN by JOE HILL (MAY 2016, ORION PUBLISHING GROUP)
“All of it. Especially the arrogant notion that the world will end just because humans might not make it through this century. We were never properly grateful for making it through the last century, as far as I’m concerned. Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we’ll be swarming all over it.
Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible. You’re afraid it’s the End Times because we’re surrounded by death and ruin. Nurse Willowes, don’t you know? Death and ruin is man’s preferred ecosystem. Did you ever read about the bacterium that thrives in volcanoes, right on the edge of boiling rock? That’s us. Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.”
This is the first novel of Hill that I have read and I truly loved his writing style. There are clever nods to popular culture which give a slight humorous edge to such a serious and though provoking story. A story that makes you ask yourself how you would survive I’m this situation?
This was one of my stand out reads of 2016 and I will be forever recommending this book to people!
Until next week, keep reading on!
-S.
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