Quotes by Kameron Hurley

All I am, and all I love, is war. I dont know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me

Hes grown into quite the young man since you took him in.You say that like being a mans a good thing, Nyx said.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

Most people who watch a fight think its all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other person harder and more often was like telling somebody that the way you kept from drowning was by moving your arms and legs.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.“I’m pretty fucked up,” Eshe said.“It’s a good thing I’m perfect, then.

And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this is love. This is what she does to someone she loves. And I wonder if I am any better, because this is what I did to Zan all those rotations ago. I seduced her until she loved me with all her heart, and when it came time to do what needed to be done, I was willing to sacrifice that love, but she was not.

The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand.She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for ours, for Nasheen. My life for a thousand.

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was a product of his/her time as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?

Id internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didnt even recognize until my early twenties.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

Theyd pay attention to me less. Theyd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.