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Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2) QUOTES

Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2) QUOTES

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

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

2 " I don't know what God wants, Eshe."
"The mullahs say they know what God wants," Eshe said. "You believe them?" He met her look in the rearview mirror.
Nyx looked back at the road. "The mullahs can't figure out what they want for dinner," she said. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

3 " I'm a bloodletter, not a politician," Nyx said. "I just take off heads. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

4 " Aliens bled red, just like everybody else. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

5 " So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

6 " Nyx rubbed the ointment onto her new, darker skin. She was nearly as dark as Suha now. She supposed it would protect her from more cancers, but it was funny-looking. At least her face was the same. At least her face didn't look Chenjan.
I'm never going to get laid again, Nyx thought. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

7 " Inaya showed up a little later with a clean tunic and trousers and long Ras Tiegan coat.
"Thought you'd hand me an abaya," Nyx said.
"Since when have you presented yourself as a real woman?" Inaya said.
"Good point. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

8 " Nyx was a lot of things, but forgettable wasn't one of them. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

9 " The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

10 " Anything less than the desert was a dream. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

11 " Nyx had finished off a fifth of vodka for breakfast, since she'd sworn off whiskey. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

12 " ...the love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with... "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

13 " You're scaring the help," Rhys said. He watched her now with his dark eyes.
"I scare a lot of people," Nyx said. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

14 " We kill a few people to stop a lot of people dying," Nyx said. "Wars kill a lot of people to keep a few people rich. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

15 " All you do is learn how to fight a war,” Nyx said. “Nobody ever teaches you how to stop. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

16 " He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in."
"You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

17 " Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation."
"You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it," Nyx said. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

18 " It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren't they? "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

19 " Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)

20 " Women are just women." Mercia's forehead wrinkled. "Those women were bel dames. "

― Kameron Hurley , Infidel (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #2)