Lauren

“You see it best in humans. How the women outlive the men in most every case. I think that’s for a reason. I think it’s because they can handle it. Females. Women. They have a grit in them. One we males like to pretend we have by brandishing our swords and gritting our teeth through the gore and piling our money up by swindling others. Feeding off the high of the battle. The thrill of living on the run. It’s all the same. But in the end, it’s the quiet that gets us. It’s ourselves we can’t stand to face. To keep company with too long. Females are built to lose, then pick themselves up and carry on. We aren’t made for that.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Realm of Shattered Lies

“But people don’t change that much over their lives. We just rotate through the different versions of ourselves. Like we might our different work boots. We have a favorite, of course, one that’s most worn in and comfortable. But then we have our nice pair, and the pair we wear for trekking through the ice, with all the spikes at the bottom. So far, I’ve determined that inside your mother are three different females. This one, the one you remember, and the one she only lets me see. Now, out of the three, I’m madly in love with two of them.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Realm of Shattered Lies

“Fact of life is people will always let you down if you put your faith completely in them.”
― T.I. Lowe, Until I Decide

“when we look at the Bible as a whole, we see that God offers us grace—undeserved kindness that isn’t based on anything we do.”
― Ivy Emerson, Shadow Light