189 Quotes by Kameron Hurley

The monsters don’t live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn’t, people wouldn’t work so hard to try to silence you.

Becoming a thing, isn’t it? Killing ourselves.

I love birds. I love to cage them, you see, because when you first do it, they fight so terribly hard. They are so alive, so defiant. I measure how long it takes for them to lose their spirit. To stop fighting. To resign themselves to their fate... They all give up, eventually. They are all in a cage, you see. There is no way out.

Don’t just fight the darkness, friends. Let’s be the light.

When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The latter is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better?

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

If it wasn’t the Tai Mora, who would we fight? Ourselves? The Dhai? The Dorinah? Always another face, always the same face.

Her body sometimes amazed her. She could keep going long after she couldn’t.