Rapture Quotes

“Humanity is a monster you can never kill.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Send a monster to kill a monster.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“You will learn to love it. Or it will destroy you. Neither is unpleasant.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Being fucked up is fine so long as you compensate for it.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“I thought you loved all this excitement,' Nyx said.
'I love orange-flavored popsicles. Fried maggots on toast. Sunset in Ashura. This? This, I merely tolerate.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.
“I’m pretty fucked up,” Eshe said.
“It’s a good thing I’m perfect, then.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Everything hurt. It meant she was alive.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“You going to fuck her or kill her?” Anneke asked when Nyx sent Mercia off with her bodyguards. “You never look that close unless it’s one or the other.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“And there is good money to be made when things are bad.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“This trip just went from fucked up to totally fucking crazy shit.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“He picked up her gun. Pointed it at her. Pulled the trigger.
Isabet jumped like a startled lizard.
He handed the gun back to her. 'First tip. Get a new gun. As soon as a Ras Tiegan gun gets sand in it, it's useless. They don't work out here.'
Isabet's hand was trembling as she took the gun back. 'You seemed very certain of that.'
'Nyx unloaded it while we were arguing,' he said. 'If you want to keep up, you'll need to start paying attention.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Listen,” Nyx said. “Don't let that little honey pot tell you what you are. You make who you are. It's for nobody else to decide. Understand? If I learned any damn fucking thing in my life, it's that. Got it?”
“Sure,” he said, but he was staring at the ground, not at her.
“Good. That's a bunch of catshit, letting people tell you who you are. Who do you want to be? Come on – who?”
“I... don't know.”
“Then you better start knowing, and soon. Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“That meant the only reliable way was ... through.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same?”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Nobody really knows what I am,” Nyx said. “Not until I put a bullet in their head.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Nyx did what she always did after she shot a terrorist or garrotted a deserter. She carried on.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“There is no place for you in this new world," Fatima said.
"That's what I'm hoping," said Nyx. "If you had any goddamn sense, you'd hope so too.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“The wall? What’s the wall?” Nyx asked.
The woman told him. Ahmed translated, “The end of the world.”
“Well, that’s fitting,” Nyx said.
“It does sound promising,” Ahmed said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“We finally got around to processing the Queen’s request to reinstate your bel dame status,” Fatima said.
“What, twelve years later?”
“Bel dames are not known for the efficiency of their paper pushing.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture