The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Quotes

“Always afraid, never a coward”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I’m always so quick to resort to violence,” I said. “I’m not ashamed of that. I think it’s necessary sometimes. But damn, it’d be nice to be able to just quit violence cold turkey. Let a spell take care of it for me.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“People always say anarchy can’t work because you can’t trust people to rule themselves. To which I’ve always said, if people are as untrustworthy as all that, how can you trust them to rule one another? You can’t.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I like the tiny little dreams I get when I sleep in the afternoon. That day, I was a very young goblin, riding this brontosaurus-like thing, and I was in love with a human boy and I was afraid he’d find out I was a goblin.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“A FREE MARKET SHOULD MEAN EVERYTHING IS FREE.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I was happy to spend some time in the kitchen. It had been a long time since I'd been surrounded by people living the way I wanted to live, and I was almost able to convince myself that things were going to be fine. I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Sometimes you have to pull a knife.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Maybe because he’d been exiled from paradise by a beast of his own making. Because he’d decided Freedom was home, and he couldn’t come back. That’s what having a home will do to you. Maybe.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“They say they want to make the world better, but they’re just supplanting one authority for another and they’ll fucking murder anyone who tries to stop them, because that’s what power does to people. I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I’m always so quick to resort to violence,” I said. “I’m not ashamed of that. I think it’s necessary sometimes. But damn, it’d be nice to be able to just quit violence cold turkey.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Imagine being so sure of the righteousness of your cause that you’re willing to sacrifice your own ideals to achieve them.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“When someone’s doing something wrong, and talking won’t do any good, you don’t just keep talking it out. You fight.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“When I’m awake I’m happy sometimes, but I don’t know that I’m ever as happy awake as I am when I’m dreaming. Awake, I’ve got all this nostalgia, this feeling that I’m separated from something I can smell but can’t touch. I get these sudden, unbearable realizations that I should have been more present during all those moments in my life, that I should have taken the time to be like, “Oh shit, man, this is my life, and it’s fucking awesome sometimes.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Collective safety, sometimes, trumps personal safety. Friends who aren’t willing to fight alongside one another aren’t friends.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Some people respond to crisis emotionally, which is probably the healthiest way. Myself, I handled crisis by shoving fear and sadness and worry down as far in my gut as I could. It’s never nice when all that nasty shit comes up as trauma later, but the practice has kept me alive.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Fan fiction. Erotic, queer fan fiction. I don’t even care what fandom. Give me someone getting it on with a werewolf or a seahorse-unicorn or whatever and I’ll be happy.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“These are the winds that cast us together, these are the winds that cast us apart. They cast as they wish, and we have naught but to follow.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“That’s Thursday and Doomsday sitting down proper,” Vulture said, by way of introductions. “We call them the Days.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“Most squats, they range from people - who - honest - to - god - piss - in - the - fucking - corner to kinda - normal - but - pretty - messy to artists - obviously - live - here - jesus - christ - why - is - there - a - life - sized - hippo - made - from - styrofoam - in - the - living - room.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I took out my phone and headphones, put on black metal, and dozed off.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“They were both ridiculous. Which didn't mean they were wrong. But they were both ridiculous.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“I started swinging. It wasn’t animal abuse. They were dead already.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all.”
― Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion