Margaret Killjoy > Quotes

“It's not really giving up our freedom to be close with people. Because freedom only exists in relation to other people.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What it May

“Always afraid, never a coward”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,” she said. “Because I don’t want to fall off a cliff but I don’t want to risk never looking over the edge.”
― Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

“All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect, the acknowledgement of one another's autonomy, and the ability to hold one another responsible for their actions. All people are free and all people are responsible to themselves and to one another.”
― Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

“Death is really simple for the dead but it’s really complicated for everyone else.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Maybe because he’d been exiled from paradise by a beast of his own making. Because he’d decided Freedom was home, and he couldn’t come back. That’s what having a home will do to you. Maybe.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“The thing about killing Nazis is it's a net gain on human life. The other thing about killing Nazis is that for some indiscernible reason, it's illegal.”
― Margaret Killjoy, It Bleeds It Burrows It Breaks the Bone

“Everyone finds meaning in different ways. I found meaning by believing in some shit we made up, in letting that be real.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Sometimes you have to pull a knife.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Men will do anything if they think it's in the best interest of some woman they love," said Gertrude. "Whether or not the woman agrees.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What it May

“I’m always so quick to resort to violence,” I said. “I’m not ashamed of that. I think it’s necessary sometimes. But damn, it’d be nice to be able to just quit violence cold turkey. Let a spell take care of it for me.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“People always say anarchy can’t work because you can’t trust people to rule themselves. To which I’ve always said, if people are as untrustworthy as all that, how can you trust them to rule one another? You can’t.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I like the tiny little dreams I get when I sleep in the afternoon. That day, I was a very young goblin, riding this brontosaurus-like thing, and I was in love with a human boy and I was afraid he’d find out I was a goblin.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Of all the ways to die, I think being pummeled to death by trashy hetero romance novels might be the worst. Or best.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What it May

“I was happy to spend some time in the kitchen. It had been a long time since I'd been surrounded by people living the way I wanted to live, and I was almost able to convince myself that things were going to be fine. I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“A FREE MARKET SHOULD MEAN EVERYTHING IS FREE.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Sarah had never seen ghosts, not once in her life. She hadn't believed in them, and she hadn't disbelieved in them. Most interesting was to realize she wasn't afraid of them.”
― Margaret Killjoy, It Bleeds It Burrows It Breaks the Bone

“Collective safety, sometimes, trumps personal safety. Friends who aren’t willing to fight alongside one another aren’t friends.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“She loved me, in her way. I loved her, in mine. We could have had that love slowly.”
― Margaret Killjoy

“If you are a culturally relevant person in America, you have a FBI file”
― Margaret Killjoy

“Most squats, they range from people - who - honest - to - god - piss - in - the - fucking - corner to kinda - normal - but - pretty - messy to artists - obviously - live - here - jesus - christ - why - is - there - a - life - sized - hippo - made - from - styrofoam - in - the - living - room.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Karak was a town of street kids, all grown up.”
― Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

“He was a poser, though. All fascists are posers.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Some people respond to crisis emotionally, which is probably the healthiest way. Myself, I handled crisis by shoving fear and sadness and worry down as far in my gut as I could. It’s never nice when all that nasty shit comes up as trauma later, but the practice has kept me alive.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I took out my phone and headphones, put on black metal, and dozed off.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“My status as a person who has ended the life of another person carries no implications about my personal ethics other than that I clearly believe there are circumstances under which it’s okay to kill someone.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“These are the winds that cast us together, these are the winds that cast us apart. They cast as they wish, and we have naught but to follow.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“When someone’s doing something wrong, and talking won’t do any good, you don’t just keep talking it out. You fight.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I bet they calculated that twenty-first century America was the worst placetime to live with the longest life expectancy. Highest rates of anxiety in recorded history, but they’re gonna cure cancer soon enough that we’ll have plenty of time to suffer.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories