Sydney

“I am strong enough, man enough, to be subject to you.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.”
― Rae Carson, The King's Guard

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Weren't you scared?" I ask.
"Yes. But it was a good scared."
"There's a good kind?"
"Oh, yes." Her voice drops so low I have to strain to hear. "Orlin made me scared all the time. Scared I would starve. Scared I would get too cold. Scared he would hurt me again or get so mad he'd throw me to one of the men. That was nasty bad scared." She pauses, scuffing her boots against the floor. "But you never hit me, even though I'm your slave... You always feed me. You call me my true name. Now when I'm scared, it's not because of meanness. And today, I chose my own scared. It's always a good scared, when you get to pick it your own self.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom