Kameron Hurley, Rapture Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

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

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

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

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