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“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

“You can only see backward because that’s all you can imagine,” she says, an edge of reprimand in her voice. “Grief is love for a past that is over, a present that has changed, and a future that will never arrive. I’m afraid your heart was wounded too young. It yearns to collect the pieces of the past because it cannot face the present. And for a heart like that, what use is the future? You cannot see forward because you cannot look forward.”
― Ryan La Sala, Beholder

“No one (no one decent) likes looking around their community or scene and seeing only white faces smiling back.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“You’ll get yours,” I said. “There’ve always been those who want power over others, there’ve always been people who don’t. The whole of our history is the history of people like you killing people like me, of people like me killing people like you. You’ll live a miserable shit life, distrustful and afraid, and you’ll get yours. I’ll get mine in the end, the same as you, but I’ll have lived a life in a society of equals, among people I love. I’ll have loved them.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories