Quotes from Marjorie M. Liu

Come on. Let's go and sit down. I need to have a beer and a nervous breakdown." "Talk first, then breakdown. I want answers, not drool." "You used to love my drool." "Ha. You funny.

Dreams, stories, art- they were, and are, instruments of divine intervention that molded you into a woman who dwells in possibility: who now feels herself serene with comfort and strength.

He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.

There are wolves in the night. The soldiers would say that, when I was a girl. My uncles and brothers in war. My friends. Raising me on the battlefield because there was no where else to go. There are wolves, they would say. And there are stories about wolves and girls. Girls in red. All alone in the woods. About to get eaten up. Wolves and girls. Both have sharp teeth.

There's never honor where there's power.

The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.

Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.