The Book of Flora Quotes

“There's better. But maybe better is always paid for by someone else. Maybe there's no comfort without somebody in pain.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of Flora

“We don’t stay free because of something we did once. We stay free because we fight our way free every day.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of Flora

“People will believe anything if you don’t teach them how to reason for themselves.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of Flora

“Connie was agreeable in that way that children are when they realize they’ve annoyed a good and generous caretaker, and they want back into good graces. They”
― Meg Elison, The Book of Flora

“It’s no great crime to live as a man. Men are plentiful and everyone understands why you do it. Women lying with women is a waste, but you’ll hardly get killed for it. Living as a woman without being one is the thing that always stirs hate and violence. As if there is some great deception in it. As if it is the worst kind of fraud. Yet a woman who cannot breed or will not try is never the same sort of problem. And women past the end of their blood are no threat. I am no different from them.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of Flora