A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

— Nenia Campbell

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

— Nenia Campbell

Being depressed and suicidal doesn't mean wanting to kill yourself every moment of every day. It may be a fixed obsession, but sometimes it gets relegated to the back of your head. Rather, it means the world takes on the very cut and dry, black and white, unilateral aspect of a flowchart.

— Nenia Campbell

Be my sonata, my cantata, my love sing me something sweet but not too sweet (or I may grow deaf to our harmony as we decrescendo into silence)

— Nenia Campbell

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

— Nenia Campbell

But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

— Nenia Campbell

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary.

— Nenia Campbell

Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning, Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning, In the darkest hours before the dawn, When witches roam and demons spawn, And children die with spirit gone, Magicked away in the gloaming.

— Nenia Campbell

Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.

— Nenia Campbell

Death is one lover who cannot be spurned.

— Nenia Campbell