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

“They may not look like us. They may not talk like us or act like us, but they are people. They live and breathe and feel and hurt—just like we do.”
― Bradley Caffee, Captive

“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

“To her, battle felt like a failure to come up with a better solution.”
― Vickie Knestaut, Aerona Stands