Tinks

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace. The poet may not want to learn this,”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“It takes a certain kind of cruelty, Odysseus, to look upon desperate men and see only swine.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“She had long since learned that no one heard the truth from her, that even if they listened, they did not hear.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“I want to see her. Study her. Determine if she's a real threat and how much she potentially knows. I'm the hostile wolf with an insatiable prey drive, and she's the little lamb that's accidentally wandered into my path. I’ve caught her scent and now I can't stop until I take her down.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive