Female Protagonist Quotes

“Don’t make assumptions, Detective Tobin. Don’t they teach you that in detective school?”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“I fail to understand why men think violence will intimidate women. Women, who bleed all over themselves every month, who rub blood clots between their fingers and burst them like insects, and sometimes can't because they're not blood clots, they're tongue-coloured strings of meat from the womb. Women who burst open in childbirth, vagina splitting and anus sagging, tiny, hardening fingernails clawing inside of them, placentas like thick filet mignon.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.”
― F.C. Yee, The Epic Crush of Genie Lo

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“When I grow up, maybe I will be
the first one to circle the sea.
Or maybe I will just spend all my day
doing everything my way.
Maybe I will be in a world of my own
I just hope not alone.
I just know that whatever I do
I will never, ever forget about you.”
― Oliver Neubert, Chantel's Quest for the Silver Leaf

“I mean, honestly? That's wife material. Like, three kids and a dog material. If she looked at me the way she looks at you, my IUD would have shot out like a party popper.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Men often like to pretend their weaknesses don't exist, as if they are gods. But who would want to be a god? I would rather be a shag lion in a field, with no worry but my next meal, than to an all-knowing being with the weight of the sun and the stars on my shoulders.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Time had always happened to her. Not here. Here, she slid light across the sky—watched the world bend to her hand.”
― R.P. Gage, Noetic Gravity

“Sometimes the old-age serenity thing is crap.”
― Becky Masterman, We Were Killers Once

“HEROES?” I laughed. “Look at the world! There’s nothing heroic about it… No, this world could burn, for all I care… and so could everyone in it.”
― iLana Markarov, The Timekeeper's Secret

“This just proves how far you and the others are willing to go to keep things hidden.”
― iLana Markarov, The Timekeeper's Secret

“She was filled with a sense of expectancy — as if at any moment something very wonderful could happen.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“I’m my own woman and my choices are my own — even if they are the wrong ones.”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“We are not built to be weapons, Kasara. But to build and renew, to lead with empathy and compassion, that is a woman’s job. Think of the other leaders, think of how their factions run on hate and greed. That is why I am here, that is why I took up the VO, because women are supposed to change the world. My father didn’t have only daughters as punishment from some distant god. No, he had daughters because some distant god knew what we could do.”
― Saralyn Everhart, Wishing for Corruption

“In the silence between two heartbeats, William felt it — the pull of a war older than stars, a calling etched in the bones of fate.”
― H . Nightshade

“Strap yourself in for one hell of a ride.”
― Bear Grylls, A Survival Guide For Life

“The protagonist of Grey Eminence was Amália, the world's first climate change artist* and the first person to exceed a billion followers on Instagram, making her a sort of global empress, unprecedented in the history of Earth. She was also Portugal's foremost performer of fado, a gold medalist in rhythmic gymnastics, excellent at baking, and capable of taming the aurochs she summoned back from extinction to revivify Lascaux.

*What the author means here is that Amália was the first to view climate change itself as an art. Her oeuvre was above all a radical reinterpretation of the still life. She practiced extinction as well as large-scale action sculptures that undid or outmaneuvered natural processes such as decomposition and promoted catastrophes when opportunities--- weather-related or other--- arose.”
― Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

“I like punching someone in the face. It’s a useful release from everything else. All my life, it seems, all I’ve known is fighting”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“She was made of magic and wrath”
― Olivia O'Flynn, Ever Blessed

“She was made of magic and wrath.”
― Olivia O'Flynn, Ever Blessed

“He held out his hand to Calliope with her hands on the shoulders of the hooded figure. They stepped forward, and when Cali nudged her up onto the dais, the figure hesitated, but then lifted the hood.
Her gaunt face and deep black hair shaded haunted black eyes. A nasty sibilance went through the crowd.
“Everyone,” Doc said, “this is Bianca. Bianca, meet New Village.”
As Rossi stared--as everyone stared--mouths wide open, Bianca took off her cloak. Her skin on her face, arms and legs was not only pale but gray, with scars that were ash-colored. Her eyes weren’t ringed with mats of goo like the man and animals they had burned before. However, those near the front could see, as her eyes flicked from one side of the amphitheater to the other, a thin line of cruddy black residue lined her eyelids and lashes like a gritty mascara. She was tainted.”
― Rachel H. White, In the Shadow of Downtown 1-6, Roots of Disunion but Shadows of Exodus: a new adult post-apocalyptic dark fantasy serial novel, collection 1

“A sad kind of contentment had settled within me.
Love was filling in the cracks.”
― Elowyn Vyr, The Girl Wrapped in Shadows

“From nothing, unseen and unnamed, she watched and waited. Every shadow whispered her patience, every secret sharpened her resolve. And when the time came, the world learned her name.”
― Nevine Essam

“Even though she was an infant, he saw her spit and vinegar, that spirit that would soon be lighting a fire under them all. His ma said he took a shine to her right away--- and that settled it.
Shine.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Moonshine Women

“A woman with nothing to lose is merely dangerous; a woman with everything to protect is a reckoning." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies

"MOST INHERIT WEALTH. SOME INHERIT SECRETS WORTH KILLING FOR." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies

"For some, gazing into the abyss fosters strength, while others are consumed by it." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies”

Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Power, Deception, and Deadly Secrets”
― Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets

“MOST INHERIT WEALTH. SOME INHERIT SECRETS WORTH KILLING FOR.”
― Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets

“SOME FIND STRENGTH GAZING INTO THE ABYSS. MOST ARE CONSUMED BY IT.”
― Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets

“THE AIR IS THIN AMONG THE ELITE; THERE ISN’T ENOUGH OXYGEN FOR THE TRUTH TO SURVIVE.”
― Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets

“Somewhere out there is a girl-shaped, girl-sized hole in the world into which she would fit perfectly. Snug and neat. Click. If she can find it, things will start to make sense again.”
― Guy Burt, The Glass Field