Strong Female Protagonist Quotes

“That's very noble of you, cautionary tales of hubris notwithstanding.'

'Hah! Please. Find me a more universally REWARDED quality than hubris. Go on, I'll wait. The word is just ancient Greek for "uppity," as far as I'm concerned. Hubris isn't something that destroys you, it's something you are PUNISHED for. By the GODS. Well, I've never met a god, just powerful human beings with a lot to gain by keeping people scared. So fuck hubris! Punch the sun, baby!”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

“Perhaps the answer lies in spurning our gifts altogether, and focusing not on our capabilities, but on our responsibilities. Perhaps it is time to stop paying attention as a species to what we are capable of doing, but instead look to what we should be doing and how we might do it better.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

“People living in actual crises aren't looking for the perfect solution, they're looking for any solution. Telling them they're wrong, that there are facts they haven't considered, is missing the point.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

“Ideas are cheap. The only thing worth anything is doing it, and doing it now.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

“Everybody dies, murder is just a matter of... of rescheduling a pending appointment. That's all.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two

“They rationalize reasons that you shouldn't be in jail to make it okay that they can't put you in jail! That's how they do things. They make reasons for things to be okay the way they are.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two