Natalie

“If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“What a burden it must have been. You're very brave for facing it alone."
"Thank you," she mumbled.
"Amazingly, astonishingly stupid, but brave."
She cracked a smile. "Yeah."
"Very foolish, is what I'm getting at."
"I can see that."
"This, basically. Just thick. Dumb as a bag of hammers. Not too bright there, Valkyrie."
"You can really stop complimenting me now.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

“The sense of urgency just wasn’t there. Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“The single thing that does the most to destroy forensic evidence at a fire scene is not the fire itself; it is an untrained, overzealous investigator armed with a rake.”
― William M. Bass, Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales