189 Quotes by Kameron Hurley

She had no magical ability, so the face he gazed into carried no illusions. She’d never tried to be anything but what she was, for him or anyone else. She was thirty-two years old, and looked ten years older. Born on the coast, raised in the interior, burned at the front, a woman who was alive only because behind her was a long line of dead men. And women.

Someone had to fight the monsters. Who better than a monster?

So long as the people with the power – to hire and fire you, approve or deny your loan, or write up your speeding ticket – look at you through the lens of institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia or any other -sim they’ve learned form stories, videos, media and other biased individuals, a single win means nothing. We cannot effect true change alone.

When we were too frightened to save our own people, we murdered others.

It’s a joke,” Casamir says. “Because of science.

It’s not meant to comfort,” she says. “It’s truth.

There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.

Just keep in mind,” Liaro said, “they’re not going to remember the words. They’ll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.

She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books.