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Mur Lafferty QUOTES

1 " Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don’t have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You’re allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn’t wait for someone else. "

― Mur Lafferty

2 " If vampires were so passionate and depicted as sexy beasts because they fed on life force, why were zombies not depicted as the scholars of the coterie world? "

― Mur Lafferty , The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides, #1)

3 " I should be writing ... "

― Mur Lafferty

4 " writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it works, then excellent. But, if it doesn't, you have to realize that perhaps nothing is wrong with you. You don't jive with the advice. "

― Mur Lafferty

5 " Paul lay in his room, letting the sick, glorious feeling of grease and carbohydrates carry him away. He wanted to think of nothing more than the feeling of his stomach, obscenely full for the first time ever. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

6 " Extremist individuals live inside every single group on the planet. Devout followers from Christian to Muslim who kill in the name of God, down to people who perpetuate a cycle of abuse from parent to child. And do you know at what point they’re labeled as terrorists?”
Martini said, “When the government—”
“When the news reports it. The news can take a starving refugee and make them into an invading migrant. One of my Black ancestors was photographed carrying diapers over his head after a flood. They called him a ‘looter.’ A white man was photographed doing the same thing. They called him a ‘survivor. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

7 " Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

8 " Get a degree in mechanical engineering, Hiro. Get a pilot’s license, Hiro. Learn meditation and hypnosis, Hiro. Slip your roommate out of prison, Hiro. Drive thousands of clones and humans around in space, Hiro. Sit on your butt for four hundred years, Hiro.’
That’s what they told me. Not once did they say, Get shot and chased and stabbed by crazed crewmates, Hiro!”
“To be fair, you were one of the people doing the chasing, crazed at the time too,” Maria said.
“Semantics,” he said. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

9 " Self-preservation is one of the signs of sentient life. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

10 " I’m so sick of that argument. I’ve been hearing it for centuries. Playing God. Wolfgang, we played God when people believed they could dictate their baby’s gender by having sex in a certain position. We played God when we invented birth control, amniocentesis, cesarean sections, when we developed modern medicine and surgery. Flight is playing God. Fighting cancer is playing God. Contact lenses and glasses are playing God. Anything we do to modify our lives in a way that we were not born into is playing God. In vitro fertilization. Hormone replacement therapy. Gender reassignment surgery. Antibiotics. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

11 " I’m just wondering what our objective is, Lieutenant,” Han said. “What it always is, Cadet,” Bolandin said, a look of disbelief on his face. He looked as if Han had missed the first day of basic training. “To bring peace and prosperity to the planet. To install a regime loyal to the Emperor and eradicate the hostiles.” “But it’s their planet,” he objected. “We’re the hostiles.” The lieutenant got close to his face and squinted his eyes. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)

12 " One of my Black ancestors was photographed carrying diapers over his head after a flood. They called him a ‘looter.’ A white man was photographed doing the same thing. They called him a ‘survivor. "

― Mur Lafferty , Six Wakes

13 " ...he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken. "

― Mur Lafferty , Playing for Keeps

14 " Are you going to eat her here, Mr. Rand, or should I prepare her to go? "

― Mur Lafferty , The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides, #1)

15 " Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. "Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune telling, or anyone in coterie society?"
-"Does a fing look swart to the zooloofills?"
Phil stared at her blankly. "I have no idea--"
-"Exactly," she interrupted. 'I don't know what you're talking about either. "

― Mur Lafferty , The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides, #1)

16 " There’s no one in the galaxy like Lando Calrissian. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)

17 " You’ll never have to do it again. I promise. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)

18 " Wherever we go couldn’t be worse than where we’ve been. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)

19 " Han reached into his jacket pocket and produced his two lucky golden dice attached by a chain. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)

20 " It's not that kind of game, Han," she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already.
"The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can. "

― Mur Lafferty , Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.1)