Terry J. Benton-Walker > Quotes

“Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts

“To be named is to submit. My name is the vastness of the waters of chaos. My name is the height of the Tree of All Seeds. My name is the cosmic mountain that reaches out of this sphere and into the next. A pause, then: That is to say, should you wish to bestow upon me a name of your choice, I will accept it as a proxy.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts

“I left out the part about me losing my magic in the middle of trying to kill Sofia Beaumont for betraying me.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“It comforted her to see a Black woman like Miss Queenie dominating in her field.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“Valentina was glad for Sofia’s friendship.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“Your girl left you, Teddy?” Brandon asked. “Is it because you spent all your money on that Yeezy tracksuit tryna impress her, but instead you look like Freddy Krueger whooped your ass?”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“It was like they all vanished into thin air. In a poof of privilege.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“That homeless woman is dangerous.” “Unhoused,” I correct him.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“Life will forever be a challenge, but whenever it feels too hard, too rough, too unkind, remember, you’re never alone. Cristina Serafine Trudeau, you are the descendent of Queens, and that means that even when it seems you’re standing all alone, you have a long line of ancestors at your back.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“But for Valentina, fear was one of the first minibosses she’d had to defeat early on.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“if I could Hulk-smash Hudson,”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“How are old cishet white male professors so annoying?”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

“I shrug. He can figure anything else out on his own since that’s what he’s making me do. Not gonna lie, transference of frustration is one of my most prized superpowers.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“Zac, Clem, and I stare at the radiant paper as if it were a television screen while bright blue script scrawls across the page from top to bottom and ends with a single underline. For a signature.”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice

“You’re the first people to acknowledge my personhood in a very long time,”
― Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice