About Joe Hill: Joe Hill is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh but combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.
I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.
Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
No one outside could imagine what it felt like to squeeze the life out of a man, to feel the jerking and juddering as you throttled away their last breath. Sometimes Jared found himself staring at his own hands, marveling at what they’d done, disgu...
They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She was no longer entirely sure who she was angry with though. Her anger didn't ha...
Sillman looked at his interrogator with hopeless eyes. 'I think while I was passed out, I dreamed about my mom's gingerbread cookies. Maybe the guy who knocked on the glass was eatin' one.' 'Mm,' said Peace-not-War. 'Well. That's helpful. We'll put a...
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.
...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...
Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.
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.
I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare ...
It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.
I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.
Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron.
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.
I can’t say I was happy with your mother. I can’t say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.
Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is probably part of being a thinking human. The one exception are those who participate in the self-righteousness Olympics and they often turn people who ...
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
