Norylska Groans Quotes

“Women fight different,” she said. “Slow. Subtle. We win by changing you, though not the brutal and clumsy way a man seeks to change a woman. We win by changing what you want to be.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Norylska Groans

“There was also a single dusty shelf stencilled with the words Historical Languages and no books.  “Fuck.” She turned in a helpless circle. Should she go in search of a librarian? Was there one?  “Fuck!” she shouted, voice echoing down stone halls.  “Fucking be quiet!” someone shouted back. “This is a fucking library!”  Well, that probably answered the librarian question.  “Where are the fucking books on ruinic Plemya?” she screamed, voice raw from the cigareta.  “On the fucking Historical Languages shelf!” replied the distant, echoing voice.  “They’re not fucking there!”  “Oh!” And then, after a score of heartbeats, “Try the History section!”  “Thanks!” she hollered down the hall.  “You’re fucking welcome!” Kat went in search of the History Wing.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Norylska Groans

“As children we strive to be who our parents want us to be. As youths we strive to be who our peers want us to be. As adults we strive to be who the state thinks we should be. As parents we strive to be who our children need us to be.
In the end we are nothing, hollow echoes of need built on the perceptions of others.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Norylska Groans

“wasn’t where you lived, but who you lived with. It wasn’t what you didn’t have, it was what you did with what was on hand.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Norylska Groans

“The debt collector, Pyotr, smiled, a slimy thing that seemed to want to crawl around the side of his head and escape to the thicket of his hair.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Norylska Groans