Quotes from Mur Lafferty

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.

I should be writing ...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You could be heroes and few would ever know. What does that feel like?

There's no one in the galaxy like Lando Calrissian.

You'll never have to do it again. I promise.

She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

Wherever we go couldn't be worse than where we've been.

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

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.

Hey, don't think, I'm gonna die. Think, Hey, I might live.

She kissed Beckett, and Han was torn between wanting to look away to give them privacy, and wanting to look and see what love was like when you were allowed to have it.

My mother, wore the mask, she thought as she napped the neck of the lead enforcer. And now I wear it. But it is not all that I am. Her friends -- her family -- were disarming the enforcers, or killing them before they could react. Some carried simple fishing knives loaned by the locals, and others had grabbed their own weapons from the sand. They were improving, adapting, and surviving, the way Enfys's mother had taught them. They underestimate us, and that is why they lose

One thing being cloned several times got you was patience. She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

Everyone was horrified at the thought of someone seeing them on the can, and yet almost no one got any thrill looking at that.

Free Kashyyyk.

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 terrorists? Martini said. When the government-- When the news reports it. . . .

What is the hormone driving you to do?" the swarm asked. "Fight, fly, freeze?