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Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Hurley won the 2011 Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, presented by the British Fantasy Society, and the 2011 Kitschies for Best Debut Novel. Her work has also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the BSFA Award, and the Nebula award; shortlisted for a Locus Award for Best Debut Novel; and made the Tiptree Award Honor List "for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender." Wikipedia  

✵ 12. January 1980
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Famous Kameron Hurley Quotes

“I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 29 (p. 220).

“The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 31 (p. 231).

“Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 26 (p. 197).

““Nyxnissa?”
She looked back at the queen. “There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.”
“I know,” Nyx said. “Life keeps going.””

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 39 (p. 285).

“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 4 (p. 42).

““We have a war to fight. You don’t understand. We fight in God’s name.”
“I understand just fine,” Nyx said.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 32 (p. 235).

Kameron Hurley Quotes

“You could stand near him, listen to him speak, and feel as if you were in the presence of some wiser man, a true mullah. His uncles were the same. Rich, powerful men whose influence allowed them to profit from the war, not fight in it.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 38 (p. 277).

“Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 34 (p. 252).

““How can you read such a beautiful book and turn your back on it?”
“Never said it wasn’t a beautiful book. I just don’t believe there’s some man up there in the black who gets off on watching us pound our head on the pavement six times a day.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 8 (p. 78).

“It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 32 (p. 240).

“She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 6).

“Not everything that’s beautiful is weak.”

Kameron Hurley

Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 68).

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