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“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.”
“Nobody really knows what I am, Nyx said. Not until I put a bullet in their head.”
“Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm the same person, aren't I? she thought. She had burned herself up, only to come out the other si...”
“Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was.”
“The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?”
“If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.”
“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their “masculine” traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes ...”
“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don’t imagine an...”
“Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.”
“Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.“I’m pretty fucked up,” Eshe said.“It’s a good thing I’m perfect, then.”
“It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.”
“Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.”
“Nobody really knows what I am,” Nyx said. “Not until I put a bullet in their head.”
