Sonny

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“How do sheep kill a lion ? By drowning him in blood.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Get him inside somewhere and keep that man alive.”
“Man?” Screwface laughs. “Hic est Lupus, motherfucker.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age