Orchid

“Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.”
― Jason Fry, Hunt for the Hydra

“Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.”
― Dean Hughes, Four-Four-Two

“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy