Katie

“But when a city was sacked, everything within it was destroyed, right down to its words.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“He walks toward me, eating up the distance in two strides, and wraps his hand around my throat. “Be my dinner”
― Rina Kent, God of War

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships