Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion Quotes

The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me