“I’d never indulged in feelings of loneliness. Too dangerous. I’d learned that after my mother’s murder. Loneliness could swallow you up, like a disease. Make you vulnerable to anything, even a smile. But then I’d stopped being lonely. And what… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Come on. Let’s go and sit down. I need to have a beer and a nervous breakdown.” “Talk first, then breakdown. I want answers,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share
“Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.” — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
When I first started out in comics they would put me on these Women of Marvel panels, and these young women would come up to me and say, "I really want to write comics but I don't know if I can because I'm told that it's just for guys." I would say, "That's bullshit. That's absolute bullshit. Look at me!"… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share
“I’m too much a man for hysterics.” Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“I learned how to play poker from a one-eyed giant with no teeth and breath that smelled like a box of rotting armpits.” — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share
