Xochitl Ridling

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“That was how you survived. See the world as it is. Not as you think it is. Not as you want it to be, or think it should be. Not even as it was yesterday. See it exactly as it is, right now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.”
― Walter Scott, Rob Roy

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae