Johnna

“Because I'm a woman?" I asked quietly. "Because you will be the only person in the fight who hasn't been trained as a killer. I have seen my mother and my grandmother on the battlefield. Any vampire with half a mind knows better than to stand between a woman and her chosen target. When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill. So please do not take this as an insult.”
― Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep

“The monks at the temple were interested in what Bodhidharma had to say, but because of their sedentary lives and poor diets, they were weak as shit.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Complete Poppy War Trilogy: The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God

“I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“My human hearing may have been nothing compared to that of a demon, but I swear on my life I heard everybody’s ass clench.”
― Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human