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The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1) QUOTES

The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1) QUOTES

1 " She is equal parts manic brutality and strategic fuckery. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

2 " People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

3 " Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

4 " There are some stories that don’t want telling,” Gian said. “Some stories you tell, they make things worse. Not better. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

5 " We have one shot at this,” Zezili said, “so don’t fuck it up.” Looking at the filthy, scar-faced girl next to her, Zezili suspected all the girl ever did was fuck up. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

6 " Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey,” Dasai said. “If things go wrong, I do not want you to fight. I want you to live. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

7 " We aren’t going to win,” Roh said. “No,” Luna said, “but we’re going to live. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

8 " When we were too frightened to save our own people, we murdered others. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

9 " Most days, though, she was just Taigan – all sexes and none. It amused her to play with the language of self. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

10 " When Lilia was four years old, her mother filled a shallow dish with Lilia's blood and fed it to the boars that patrolled the thorn fence. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

11 " And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

12 " We all want a good many things, child, but it doesn’t mean we get them, "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

13 " She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

14 " That was a very formidable woman," Caisa said.

"I seem to know a good many of those."

"And you have a terrible habit of angering them," she said. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

15 " Living is the purpose, Roh. For however long we have to do it, we live. That's all. That's all the ever was."

"We aren't going to win," Roh said.

"No," Luna said, "but we're going to live. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

16 " Becoming a thing, isn’t it? Killing ourselves. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

17 " Her body sometimes amazed her. She could keep going long after she couldn’t. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)

18 " He wore a white girdle that pulled in his waist just above the hips. He was, of necessity, slender. She believed men should take up as little space as possible. He wore his black hair long over his shoulders, tied once with a white ribbon. The men allowed to live were, of course, beautiful, far more beautiful than any of the women Zezili knew. Anavha was clean-shaven, as she wanted him, lightly powdered in gold, his eyes lined in kohl, eyes a stormy grey, set a bit too wide in a broad face whose jaw she has initially found almost vulgar in its squareness. He stood a hand shorter than she; she easily outweighed him by fifty pounds. She liked him just this way. "

― Kameron Hurley , The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1)