Jo Anne

“With you there are only two distances that matter:  Here. Not here. You are not here.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“The muster roll for the 1300 campaign noted that Hugh fitz Heyr, a Shropshire landowner of little consequence, was obliged by the terms of his tenure to serve in the king’s war ‘with bow and arrow’. It also noted that ‘as soon as he saw the enemy he shot his arrow, then went home’.”
― Marc Morris, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

“It was not so easy to pray, alone--or at least he had never found it so. But all at once he felt that he dared not go unblessed--unarmed. What prayer could he make, to the God whom he had refused to forsake, yet could not truly remember? He drew his sword and held it up before him, hoping for words, but none came. The moonstone on the pommel shone faintly in the dimness of the tent. The Shield of Adamant glittered. These two, and me, and Dur'chai; that's all, he thought. That's all there is, to meet him. 'Take us,' he said aloud, 'for what we're worth. It's harder than I thought--and I'm afraid.”
― Joy Chant, Red Moon and Black Mountain

“What the Hell happened to that angel,” Butch murmured.”It’s like he’s running out of battery strength.” Shaking his head, V went back to his phone. “Betty White did die. Maybe that’s why he’s in decline.”
― J.R. Ward, The Viper