Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley (born 1980) is an American science fiction author.

God’s War (2011)

 * Nominated for the 2012 Nebula Award. All page numbers from the trade paperback first edition published by Night Shade Books


 * She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.
 * Chapter 1 (p. 6).


 * A well-appointed prison is still a prison.
 * Chapter 4 (p. 42).


 * Not everything that’s beautiful is weak.
 * Chapter 7 (p. 68).


 * “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.
 * Chapter 8 (p. 78).


 * Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.
 * Chapter 26 (p. 197).


 * 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?
 * 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.
 * Chapter 31 (p. 231).


 * “We have a war to fight. You don’t understand. We fight in God’s name.” “I understand just fine,” Nyx said.
 * Chapter 32 (p. 235).


 * It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.
 * Chapter 32 (p. 240).


 * Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.
 * Chapter 34 (p. 252).


 * 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.
 * Chapter 38 (p. 277).


 * “Nyxnissa?” She looked back at the queen. “There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.” “I know,” Nyx said. “Life keeps going.”
 * Chapter 39 (p. 285).