MAYA QUARTZ

“It was a hot, sunny, bright day. People don't realize it, but that is when loneliness is the sharpest, it cuts the deepest - when the sun shines, and everything else is bright and warm.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect

“People were so oversensitive to the supposed overfishing of sharks. As if it wasn't the height of hubris to decide that humanity needed to be put into the position of custodian to the height of apex predators. God had made man to fight and defeat his other creations. Why else would he have made his chosen children physically weak, but mentally strong? In the battle between man and shark, the shark should always have won. That it didn't, proved only that man was intended to be victorious and that he should be allowed to kill whatever he could before he, in turn, was killed.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“One violent man can do a lot of damage, but one strong woman can do a great deal more.”
― MK Oliver

“I was beginning to learn the gendered rules for behavior. My parents did not want a steely-eyed warrior for a daughter- they wanted someone obedient and kind. She didn't have to be a quivering sack of hysteria, but she should at least crack at FBI-interrogator levels. I would have to do better. I would try to be softer.”
― Heather Gay, Bad Mormon: A Memoir