“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
More from Joe Hill
“To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.”
“Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth…”
“The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.”
“Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.”