Wake of Vultures Quotes

“So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“There's not shame in being what you are... I'm the only one who gets to say what I am”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Sunset, at least, took its time, nice and lazy. She liked the colors of it, and the way that no one could own the sun. It couldn't be compelled, couldn't be roped. You could yell at it all day long, threaten and plead and cuss, and the sun would not budge a goddamn inch. It was what it was, and it took its damn time about it”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To that things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“The world was not a place of black and white, night and day. It was shades of gray and shadows, dusk and dawn, in-between moments and shifting sands.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“People need to be touched and talked to, they need to know somebody else in the world cares.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“If a man values something, he'd best leave his mark on it." Nettie thought of the scars on her back and down her arms and legs. For something she'd been long told had no value, she carried a lot of brands”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“You don't seem bad... But I reckon most bad things don't think they're bad”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“You're human, all human, tempered with long suffering and brief mortality like a blade forged in fire and ice”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Don't blame what's been a creature's legs. Blame what's in its heart”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“So like a man, to think there's safety among yet more men”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“But nobody calls a white man that."
"No one pokes the biggest, dumbest gull in the herd, but no one follows him, either.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Whatever is born is something new, something unique. Nothing is pure. Everything is a half-breed.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Because I do what I want. I might like wearing a dress, but I don't wear it for them. It's for me. Because I like the feel of it. And I'll not have them taking anything from me that I'm not willing to give”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“And remember: You don’t have to be what they tell you to be.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Nettie's one-eyed glare was flat, her patience gone. "I'm the feller that's going to kill you."
"You're not a feller."
"That's not yours to decide.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Being a person was mighty twisty, and yet she didn’t want to go back to being nothing.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Nettie scanned the shed for anything useful, but all she saw were big, clumsy things, like hoes and plows and men.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl.” Nettie”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything.”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures

“thick”
― Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures