Kameron Hurley

“I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.”

“I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.”

“As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks.”

“Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts.”