Stephanie

“We’re more elegant weapons. More civilized. Less clumsy or random. We’re built with the strength to hold this Fleet together.”
― Emily Skrutskie, Hullmetal Girls

“What, you people expect women to tear apart their bodies and then go to all the bother of raising the children? That takes years, you know,” Serene remarked sternly. “The women’s labour is brief and agonizing, and the man’s is long and arduous. This seems only just. What on earth are men contributing to their children’s lives in the human world? Why would any human woman agree to have a child?” “The more she talks the more sense it all makes,” said Elliot. “Has anyone else discovered that?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Elliot opened his mouth to argue. He knew that Luke and Serene were exceptional. But shouldn’t the adults, if they loved them, if they were responsible for them and cared for them more than for anything else, the way adults were supposed to… shouldn’t they try to stop them saving the day, even if they could do it? Unless Elliot’s father was only the most honest of the adults, and all adults were willing to betray children if offered an incentive”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“He staged a pacifist protest by hurling knives all over everywhere,”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands