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“I am not with you" she snapped "I am fucking you"
"The only thing fit for a bastard-born brute, right?"
"I didn't say that"
"You don't need to. You've said it a thousand times before"
"Then why did you bother cutting in at the ball?"
"Because I was fucking jealous!" he roared, wings splaying. "You looked like a queen, and it was painfully obvious that you should be with a princeling like Eris and not a low-born nothing like me! But go ahead, Nesta. Go ahead and fucking marry him and good fucking luck to you!"
"Eris is the Brute" she shot back "He is a brute and a piece of shit. And I would marry him, because I am just like him!"
The words echoed through the room.
His pained face gutted her. "I deserve Eris" Her voice cracked.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Today’s FBI could benefit greatly from a return to the leadership models, cultural traits, and operational practices that made it great. To some degree, these factors were deprioritized, watered down, and sometimes discarded for new-era management approaches embraced by corporate America…” (Excerpt from “Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew).”
― Christopher M Piehota, Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew

“If their rules made sense
and sense ruled—
If their laws weren’t so brok- en
I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal offender.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice