Alexia Scallion

“Suddenly blinded by dazzling light filling the room, they hear a series of clicks echoing around them. As the purple gloom returns and with it their sight, little red dots dance across their chests.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
― Voltaire