Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.