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Marjorie M. Liu QUOTES

1 " Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so much
agonized rage.
“ ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,’” I muttered.
“Yoda, from Star Wars?”
“ ‘Hate leads to suffering.’” I met his gaze. “Yoda knows his shit, man.”
Grant’s mouth crooked in a gentle smile. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , The Mortal Bone (Hunter Kiss, #4)

2 " I’m too much a man for hysterics.”

Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Hunter Kiss (Hunter Kiss, 0.5)

3 " Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, #1)

4 " Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Shadow Touch (Dirk & Steele, #2)

5 " There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, #1)

6 " Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Darkness Calls (Hunter Kiss, #2)

7 " Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Shadow Touch (Dirk & Steele, #2)

8 " They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress #6

9 " The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , X-23, Vol. 1: The Killing Dream

10 " Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked". "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

11 " Only she who trusts nothing can know real peace. "

― Marjorie M. Liu

12 " Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space where shadow meets light ... that borderland of dreams and death, and death and life. No door is closed against us. No secret can defy us. We exist in every world, every universe, every possibility. We cannot be denied, not even by the dead.' We are magnificent, Ren Mormorian. We are fucking glorious. "

― Marjorie M. Liu

13 " He betrayed you, too."

"I can't abandon people because they make mistakes - I would have to abandon myself. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

14 " Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress #1

15 " I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Tiger Eye (Dirk & Steele, #1)

16 " To quote the poets... we're fucked. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

17 " There's more hunger in the world than love. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

18 " But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood

19 " Just because you are afraid you won't have anything tomorrow doesn't mean you shouldn't help people today. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood

20 " Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You’ll have to kill, yes. But there’s a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going. "

― Marjorie M. Liu , The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, #1)