Marjorie M. Liu > Quotes

“I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live. ”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye

“To quote the poets... we're fucked.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt

“There's more hunger in the world than love.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

“But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Shadow Touch

“Just because you are afraid you won't have anything tomorrow doesn't mean you shouldn't help people today.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Inked

“Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You’ll have to kill, yes. But there’s a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt

“There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt

“Yes. Miss Halfwolf scares me a lot. But that doesn’t make her a monster. Don’t be like the Witches, Master Ren. They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

“They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress #6

“Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so much
agonized rage.
“ ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,’” I muttered.
“Yoda, from Star Wars?”
“ ‘Hate leads to suffering.’” I met his gaze. “Yoda knows his shit, man.”
Grant’s mouth crooked in a gentle smile.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Mortal Bone

“It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.”
― marjorie m. liu, Monstress, Volume 3: Haven

“I am not a total pervert. Although, to be honest, consider the night we’ve been having. First handcuffs, and
now this? Way more kinky than I expected.”
“Please,” M’cal said. “Do not talk.”
“You like the strong and silent type, huh?”
“If you do not shut up, I will kill you with my voice.”
“I love it when you talk dirty.”
“Fine. Which would you prefer to lose first? Your soul or your testicles?”
“You know, you’re just a bit obsessed with chopping off balls. Do you have issues with your masculinity?”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Soul Song

“Jesus, Dean. I don’t know why you have me around with her watching your back”
“You’re just jealous. But don’t worry. One day you too will have your very own little Amazon.”
“I’ll just settle for a woman.”
“If you’re lonely, you can have the inflatable sex doll Blue gave me for my birthday. I don’t want the two
of you to miss out on an opportunity for love.”
“You didn’t like her?”
“I wasn’t man enough to satisfy her cravings. I’m sure you’ll be different.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Red Heart of Jade

“The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on. ”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye

“Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of life that matters--just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on after our hearts break. Hearts always break. And so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end--what matters is that we loved and lived”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 3: Haven

“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.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“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.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, X-23, Vol. 1: The Killing Dream

“Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Darkness Calls

“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.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Red Heart of Jade

“There's never honor where there's power.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Red Heart of Jade

“Kidnappings, magic, long-lost love of my life. Nothing to rock the boat. All in a day’s work.”
“Of course,” he said dryly. “Which is why you’re calling me in the middle of the night while I’m on my
honeymoon.”
“Man, you’ve been married three months. The honeymoon is over. “
“Not until we leave Russia,” Artur said. “And never even after that.”
Which was like hearing the Incredible Hulk start talking like Gandhi.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Red Heart of Jade

“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.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

“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.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, A Wild Light

“So what’s all the fuss?” he asked instead. “Where’s all the shit coming from?”
Dean told him. He tried to make it concise, using flash words such as “fire” and “conspiracy” and “big
freakin’ shape-shifter,” and told Roland, too, about Miri and Robert and Kevin. The red jade.
“You’re both fucked,” Roland said. “Seriously. I’ll start arranging the funeral now.”
“I want a happy boss. Where’s the positive reinforcement?”
“Buried with Pollyanna in my backyard. Which is where you’ll be if you don’t play your cards right.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, The Red Heart of Jade