We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories Quotes

“Death is really simple for the dead but it’s really complicated for everyone else.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Everyone finds meaning in different ways. I found meaning by believing in some shit we made up, in letting that be real.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“I bet they calculated that twenty-first century America was the worst placetime to live with the longest life expectancy. Highest rates of anxiety in recorded history, but they’re gonna cure cancer soon enough that we’ll have plenty of time to suffer.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Worst of all, when I see children, I think of their bones.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“I had dreams about washing blades and washing bones in a skyscraper overlooking a dead city. The city was always the same, full of brutalist structures shorter than the tower.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“The mist seeps up from an earth that’s grown tired of us, and I’m tired of running.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“You’ll get yours,” I said. “There’ve always been those who want power over others, there’ve always been people who don’t. The whole of our history is the history of people like you killing people like me, of people like me killing people like you. You’ll live a miserable shit life, distrustful and afraid, and you’ll get yours. I’ll get mine in the end, the same as you, but I’ll have lived a life in a society of equals, among people I love. I’ll have loved them.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“No one (no one decent) likes looking around their community or scene and seeing only white faces smiling back.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“He was a poser, though. All fascists are posers.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“When you engage with the work of historical authors, especially when you make derivative works a century later, you have to adapt to one’s own social context.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“The thing about killing Nazis is it’s a net gain of human life. The other thing about killing Nazis is that for some indiscernible reason, it’s illegal.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“My status as a person who has ended the life of another person carries no implications about my personal ethics other than that I clearly believe there are circumstances under which it’s okay to kill someone.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“It’s no more right to be mad at a brat for tagalong than it’s right to be mad at a squirrel for stupid or a devil for death. Chris climbed the Three Trees, and he swung into Sandy Creek, and he kept being there when I wanted to talk to Penny about important stuff like if there was a grunge scene in Portland or, you know, her opinions on the current popularity of bisexuality among teenage girls.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“You're dead and I can never bury you.
I think that's love.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories