Rachel

“All right, why do women make better rulers? I’m assuming it’s something witty, like ‘men are always thinking of their dicks.’” “Well,” Belina said with a downturn of her bottom lip, “the phrase is actually ‘thinking with their dicks’, but now that you mention it, you lot are fond of your dicks. No, dicks definitely get in the way, but the issue is more because men always believe they are the smartest person in the room, regardless of who else is in the room with them. Which leaves them open to being proven wrong – often.” “You just said dicks as many times as you could, didn’t you?” “Yes.”
― Ryan Cahill, Of War and Ruin

“We are born, we live, and we die. Those three things cannot be changed. The only thing within our control is what we choose to do with the short time we have – the things we fight for, the people we love, the things we hold dear.”
― Ryan Cahill, Of Darkness and Light

“People tended to fear what they didn’t understand, and fear was a good friend of hate.”
― Ryan Cahill, Of Darkness and Light

“The older I get, the more I realise that nothing is like I thought it would be.”
― Verity Bright, A Witness to Murder