Wool (Silo series book 1)

 

1. Or do you just hate that the blur has had so much time to build?
2. I enforced those rules for most of my life, even after I realised they were bullshit
3. No Mayor has sent more people to cleaning than I have
4. Nervous that he won't do the cleaning because most say they won't then they will
5. Uprising took place regularly, once every generation
6. Good guys wiping the servers and evidence of uprisings every 2 decades
7. No uprising since the last one
8. Forgotten history like Rodda
9. What if some part of our known history..or knowledge of whatever it was that made people move in here long  long ago... what if that built up some kind of pressure
10. He could feel the pressure as sheriff to fit someone (to clean)
11. Wool pads
12. A spark of calm clarity registered there..of cool calculation 
13. None of it is real
14. IT make the pictures on screen look real
15. I'll come right back. 
16. Expressing any desire to leave. The great offence. All the uprisings started that
17. Damn them if they are staying here. I'm only coming back for you
18. Green Hills Green carpet
19. What would they see, anyone who had chosen to watch
20. Down-deeper
21. Why does Marnes not want to be promoted
22. Planning holiday trips to see the view for an hour
23. Anyone with wrinkles in their eyes knew better. 
24. Keep us going, don't let it unravel not just yet
25. Wool refers to cleaning the cameras but also wool over one's eyes
26. Bernard from IT appearing to pick candidates 
27. I gave you my list in confidence. You betrayed that. 
28. Their time was almost up. The most important thing they could do for the silo was to make sure their legacy endured. No uprisings. 
29. Existence of other silos?
30. 3x48 levels
31. Juliette
32. The point is it's going to happen.
33. IT has 3 floors of 144
34. He radiated confidence. His smile threw shadows
35. I figure you don't need me to talk you into something you've already walked this far to get. 
36. Cause she'll damn well do it
37. The shared meal was breakfast for one and supper for the other 
38. They make the best ones. The ones who have no interest in it 
39. He'll be getting more guidance from the thirties or from the Pact.
40. Heat tape for IT
41. I think I'll have a lot to learn before you go calling me that
42. The juice of her efforts and sacrificed years had dripped down through a silo that.. hardly knew and barely cared
43. A whispered word of tenderness and appreciation 
44. Testing the memory of old attractions
45. The Pact is clear
46. Billings as judge
47. You think you'll outlive another sheriff?
48. (Bernard kept his eyes on this curious exchange - set up the murder)
49. Two people who interviewed Juliette died
50. It almost felt like an affront, to bring her here and then leave her so suddenly. 
51. Or good depending on who you were. She noticed childless couples biting vigorously into their fruit, their hands intertwined, silently doing the maths.
52. Peter billings shadowed a silo judge but he seemed more the IT type.. maybe IT plant spies everywhere
53. It never occurred to her that the view could be fabricated
54. She was after all following the breadcrumbs of someone else following more breadcrumbs, a much easier and more obvious trail 
55. Making wiring and conversing with each other more difficult
56. Limned in grease
57. Scottie killed
58. He loved you. Damn, how that boy looked up to you. 
59. This roughly 8 inch by 2 inch sheet of glass
60. I knew it.. there are 18+ other silos it seems that don't want each other to know of their existence 
61. 4.95/5?
62. Walker called all the favours in. Best of the best
63. Think we have more hope among the toppers. Say again?
64. Shook his head at those who spent hard earned chits on food that would never repay the favour
65. People feared him and wanted to feel safe. But they respected McLain and wanted to feel loved
66. 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
67. We are the seeds, this is a silo. They put us here for the bad times. 
68. I'm coming for you. I'm coming home and I'm coming to clean.
69. characters a bit too easily killed
70. It's because we knew
71. Peter had taken the risk, had listened.
72. Probably justified 4.9-4.95/5