The Stars Are Legion
Kameron Hurley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The latter is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better?”
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”
“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.”
“What is love anyway but a hunger no meal can satisfy?”
“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.”
“We all create the stories we need to survive”
“I once believed that all we were is the sum of our memories,” Das Muni says, “but in this place, I found that it isn’t the memories that made us; it is what we decided to do with them. I tried to build a life down there, in the dark, based on the pain I’ve endured. But you can’t do that, can you? You have to . . . remake it. Transform. We are more than the sum of what’s happened to us, aren’t we?”
“There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.”
“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.”
“I’m afraid,” I say, and that is partly the truth. I am afraid of what I am going to have to do to this person who claims she is my sister, but who I want to take into my arms and fuck until the world ends.”
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Book Keywords:
love, stories, utopia, science-fiction, survivalism, dystopia, space-opera
