Cassandra Duffy > Quotes

“The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“Maybe you can explain to me what is so spectacular about her, because you gay girls can’t seem to keep your hands off that daffy redhead.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head

“Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“No, no, a good love, a solid love grants life. We’re both still here because the other needs us to be. Find that, and love will keep you from death.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Steam-Powered Sniper in the City of Broken Bridges

“Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.”
― Cassandra Duffy

“It was all superstitious nonsense in Gieo’s estimation and kind of a disappointing commentary on humanity—remove globalization and everyone reverted back to tribal behavior, even if that tribal behavior was bat-shit-crazy.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Gunfighter's Gambit

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools,”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head

“It’s broken!” Gieo stumbled back out of the airship crash with a cornucopia of devices cradled in her arms, discarding most of them as she went, finally filtering down to one specific machine, no bigger than a television remote, hemorrhaging copper wires. “What is it?” Fiona asked, hoping it wasn’t something useful she might later steal. “It’s a Sapphic Intimate-Encounter Reciprocity Concluder,” Gieo said glumly. “Um…okay…what does it do?” “Only let’s a lesbian couple know when they’re done having sex, duh,” Gieo said. “Without it, girl-girl sex could hypothetically go on indefinitely. I mean, how else would you know when you were done?” “Usually when everyone’s happy or my jaw starts hurting.” “You’ve clearly had better lovers than me.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Gunfighter and The Gear-Head

“I will become a hedonistic wretch.” “You can’t simply become a hedonistic wretch!” Athol beckoned a nearby serving girl to deliver him a new tankard of ale to replace the one Harper had nearly finished. “It takes years of practice, a lifetime of dedication, and a lack of any other realistic ambitions to become a hedonistic wretch.”
― Cassandra Duffy, Divine Touched

“Those Gods and Goddesses with their unknowable gobbledygook,” Athol slurred, having somehow found possession of a fresh tankard while Harper was listening to Sven. He drained most of it and waved for another. “Meddling about in their nonsense, demanding mortals beg and scrape for a tiny crumb of recognition, and then they ask you to give up a raucous piece of tail like Calista? I hope you told her to take her trident and whatever other maritime bric-a-brac she could find and shove it right up her undying ass.”
― Cassandra Duffy, Divine Touched

“Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you a little stranger.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Steam-Powered Sniper in the City of Broken Bridges

“We’d just about ruined experiencing the world with cell phones and everything that went with them. Staring at a tiny screen with the whole wide world around you was just about the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen folks do.”
― Cassandra Duffy, The Gunfighter's Gambit