Kameron Hurley Quotes

I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of st...

I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because t...

On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was...

Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as as...

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit ...

Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm...

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

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

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to g...

Nobody really knows what I am,” Nyx said. “Not until I put a bullet in their head.

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

We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encoura...

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

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you i...

If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

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

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

It was men, not God, who had done those things...

He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in.""You say that like being a man's a good t...

Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, y...

The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My ...

Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as...

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else...

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

Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.“I’m pretty fucked up,” Eshe said.“...

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anyt...

I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself w...

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosin...

Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you m...

I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my ...

I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereabl...

Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to p...

Young white men in the eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old range are often coming to grips with the fac...

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.

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

And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her...

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survi...

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

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