McKenzie > McKenzie's Quotes

“He said, "Dance for me," and he said,
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,
"I'm a poor tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead.”
― Sidney Keyes

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“He often referred to the female gender in plural form, as if they did not exist except in batches.”
― Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance

“He had the eyes of a very beautiful person, trapped in resting bitch face.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“You know my sexual inclinations," Rosie said. "So, unless you've grown a cock since the last time I saw you, I'd recommend not trying to fuck me.”
― Stina Leicht, Persephone Station

“In short, it is easier and requires far less energy and time expenditure to manage humanity than it does to replace them.”
― Stina Leicht, Persephone Station

“Humans were made of contradictions.”
― Stina Leicht, Persephone Station

“You want many things, you are full of want, carved out of it, made from it, yes. But the truth does not care about what you want, the truth is what it is. It is not moved by want, it is not a blade of grass to be bent by the wind of your hopes and desires" -PET”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“Good and innocent, they not the same thing; they don't wear the same face.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“What does a monster look like? Jam asked.

Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole problem.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“The Cheng I Sao had more defenses than the Order of St. Rita’s convent-ship, it was true, but that was like saying a fruit fly was possessed of greater intelligence than a potato.”
― Lina Rather, Sisters of the Forsaken Stars