The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.