Chris

“Drunk one night, Sarah had told me Women are the race, Tak. No two ways about it. Male is just a mutation with more muscle and half the nerves. Fighting, fucking machines. My own cross-sleevings had born that theory out. To be a woman was a sensory experience beyond the male. Touch and texture ran deeper, an interface with environment that male flesh seemed to seal out instinctively. To a man, skin was a barrier, a protection. To a woman, it was an organ of contact. That had its disadvantages. In general, and maybe because of this, female pain thresholds ran higher than male, but the menstrual cycle dragged them down to an all-time low once a month.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“The next morning, Louie was taken to an airfield to be flown to Okinawa, where many POWs were being collected before being sent home. Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore. Looking extremely pregnant, Louie boarded the plane.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“homini lupus’, said Plautus. ‘Man is a wolf to man.”
― Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist