Camp Zero Quotes

“Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“ ‘We must imagine a future of less. Less capital. Less resources. Less space. And we must accept that the survival of the human race depends on a radical reimagining. Use and destroy can no longer be our credo of living.’ ”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“How can you fault the fist when the heart spasms for air?”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“Of course it’s shit.” Nari squeezes her hand. “But it’s the only world we have.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“she knows now that power is never granted but seized.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“a pink as soft and sweet as the inside of a newborn’s ear.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

“Books and poems and people standing together in protest and lighting the flag on fire doesn’t matter one iota when we are dying of thirst, burning from the sun, sinking into the sea. Day Zero approaches for us all. For some, it’s earlier than others, but it’s always there, a looming deadline for when we all expire.”
― Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero