Catalyst Quotes

“So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?”
“Why do you want to know?”
She smiled up at the stars. “Future reference.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“I’m going to make an exception for you. If you want to study me – every inch of me – I’m willing to be your lab rat.”
“Well, I’d need to have research questions if it’s going to be a valid scientific endeavor.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“Ten years ago, I attended a community meeting for an oil pipeline proposal PE was ramming through the environmental impact process in eastern Washington. I sat in the front row as you defended PE’s plan to destroy an important Traditional Cultural Property to build a pipeline that would bisect the state from the Canadian border to the Columbia River. You had no respect for the sovereignty of tribes over the land. Your plan lacked even basic environmental protection for air and water, but you defended it because you didn’t give a fuck about air Indians breathe or water Indians drink.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“I’m an aid worker. I’ve been helping South Sudanese people who’ve returned to their villages after being displaced by the civil war prepare for the rainy season, which, by all accounts, is going to suck elephant dicks this year.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“Friends call me Brie. You may call me Ms. Stewart.”
“Stewart? Not Prime?”
She shrugged. “I legally changed my last name to my mother’s maiden name.”
“Like Prime Petroleum changed to Prime Energy a dozen years ago? Obvious and unconvincing greenwashing.”
“I wasn’t greenwashing, I simply no longer wished to be associated with Prime Energy, and the decision to change my last name sent a clear message to Jeffrey Senior.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“If she could win the respect of this one man, she would prove to herself she’d changed. That she didn’t have a black soul.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst

“Princess Prime, I’m your worst nightmare.”
― Rachel Grant, Catalyst