“ They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage. Kameron Hurley
“ The more women writers I read, from Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Toni Morrison, the less alone I felt, and the more I began to see myself as part of something mor… Kameron Hurley
“ I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before.… How is it we can bear to liv… Kameron Hurley
“ I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don’t imagine anyon… Kameron Hurley
“ Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was. Kameron Hurley
“ Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm the same person, aren't I? she thought. She had burned herself up, only to come out the other side… Kameron Hurley
“ Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them. Kameron Hurley
“ Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one. Kameron Hurley
“ 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. Kameron Hurley
“ It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely. Kameron Hurley
“ I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties. Kameron Hurley
“ 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"… Kameron Hurley
“ 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 ou… Kameron Hurley
“ 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… Kameron Hurley
“ 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. Kameron Hurley
