Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.