Katy Brent > Quotes

“Oh, to have the confidence of a very average white male.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“I want to live in a world where I don’t have to keep my keys between my fingers in case I’m attacked walking home.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“He doesn’t look like a monster though. But they don’t, do they? Otherwise, they’d never get the opportunity to be monsters.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.’ —JANE EYRE”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“He referred to himself as an ‘entrepreneur’. Which everyone knows is shorthand for twat.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“I blame Hollywood for this. There’s still some notion that continually trying to win over a woman who has quite clearly expressed having no interest in you is romantic.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“I often find myself wondering if there’s someone who looks at my bank statements and just shakes their head in utter despair.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“Maybe disemboweling a sex offender is what I need to cure this particular hangover.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

“I absolutely refuse to be around anyone who thinks they’re better than me because a) who has the time to waste hanging out with anyone you just will never get along with and b) no one is better than me.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“Tons of action. Just a few weeks ago I killed a man by stabbing him through the eye. Then I chopped him into pieces and fed him into the mincers at one of my meat factories. There are probably a few sausage-roll fans chowing down on him as we speak. Before that I killed a creep who followed me home and threatened to rape me because I didn’t fuck him for buying me a few glasses of shitty wine. And have I mentioned my dad?”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“It’s a funny thing, when you tell people you’ve written a book, one of the most common things they ask you is ‘Am I in it?’ which, I think, says quite a bit about the human ego.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“I can barely contain my unexcitement”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“And false hope is worse than no hope. That’s what I read on Refinery29 anyway.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“The straw draws attention to my mouth, which will apparently get him thinking about the other things I can do with it. Thanks for that tip, Teen Vogue.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“She’s clearly never met him, but regales us with that fake joy only funeral comperes can nail, about how much he loved life, cricket, his family, Lucy, along with violence towards women and girls. I made the last one up.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“Grief affects every atom of your being, not just your mind.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“Tears of shame feel like crying acid. They hurt the inside of your face and scar the outside of it forever. But these are new tears. It turns out tears of grief are still painful”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“A witch hunt on social media, spurred on by a tabloid news site, named her within thirty minutes of the original TikTok going live. Interestingly, there has been no such public outcry to name and shame her male co-star.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“But the good stuff, the moments that take your breath away, the moments when you can’t see anything bad because you’re so dazzled by happiness, those moments you’ve got to work for.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“I know as well as anyone how we can fall away from ourselves as we flail against grief. How sometimes all we can cling to are the formal conventions that are imprinted into us.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“bad stuff will keep coming, Molly, no matter what you do. But the good stuff, the moments that take your breath away, the moments when you can’t see anything bad because you’re so dazzled by happiness, those moments you’ve got to work for.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“Molly Monroe’s name will forever be associated with this one night. Future employers will be able to see the story. Her future children, should she have any, will see it. She’s another reminder that our society is still patriarchal. It’s still built on misogyny. Women’s sexuality is still used to shame us into submission and obedience. And Molly Monroe has been made into the sacrificial lamb to remind us of that.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“If you think extremely average white men have a confidence they don’t deserve, imagine one with money who has been gushed over since he was about twelve.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

“The bad stuff will keep coming, Molly, no matter what you do. But the good stuff, the moments that take your breath away, the moments when you can’t see anything bad because you’re so dazzled by happiness, those moments you’ve got to work for.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“My poor head is pounding out a questionable drum and bass track while my throat feels like I’ve deep-throated a cheese grater.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“it reminds me of a mug I saw on Etsy saying, ‘It doesn’t matter how much ink you get, you’ll always be a mainstream cunt.”
― Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

“I was just about to grab something for lunch, but don’t worry. I’ll get my assistant to get us some sandwiches.’ He doesn’t even ask if I’m hungry or anything and it strikes me how much men assume.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“Named. Shamed. No one asks who the man is.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before

“She’s another reminder that our society is still patriarchal. It’s still built on misogyny. Women’s sexuality is still used to shame us into submission and obedience.”
― Katy Brent, The Murder After the Night Before