Infidel Quotes

“The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Nyx was a lot of things, but forgettable wasn't one of them.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Anything less than the desert was a dream.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Nyx had finished off a fifth of vodka for breakfast, since she'd sworn off whiskey.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“All you do is learn how to fight a war,” Nyx said. “Nobody ever teaches you how to stop.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“We kill a few people to stop a lot of people dying," Nyx said. "Wars kill a lot of people to keep a few people rich.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“You're scaring the help," Rhys said. He watched her now with his dark eyes.
"I scare a lot of people," Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“...the love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with...”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“I'm a bloodletter, not a politician," Nyx said. "I just take off heads.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren't they?”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation."
"You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it," Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in."
"You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“I don't know what God wants, Eshe."
"The mullahs say they know what God wants," Eshe said. "You believe them?" He met her look in the rearview mirror.
Nyx looked back at the road. "The mullahs can't figure out what they want for dinner," she said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Inaya showed up a little later with a clean tunic and trousers and long Ras Tiegan coat.
"Thought you'd hand me an abaya," Nyx said.
"Since when have you presented yourself as a real woman?" Inaya said.
"Good point.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“She had traded that first womb for twenty notes and a case of Ras Tiegan beer.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Aliens bled red, just like everybody else.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Nyx rubbed the ointment onto her new, darker skin. She was nearly as dark as Suha now. She supposed it would protect her from more cancers, but it was funny-looking. At least her face was the same. At least her face didn't look Chenjan.
I'm never going to get laid again, Nyx thought.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“It was men, not God, who had done those things...”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“I've bled and fucked and died for this country," Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“How are you feeling?"
"Fit as a harem girl."
"You're as much a harem girl as I am a mullah," Suha said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“...and next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or two.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Women are just women." Mercia's forehead wrinkled. "Those women were bel dames.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“At the end of the world, the war was going to come down to throwing stones.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel

“Ras Tiegans fried everything, from grasshoppers to pickles to hunks of curried dog.”
― Kameron Hurley, Infidel