Kaiaros

“You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don't ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“You have a plan?” she asked. “There isn’t much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Two basic norms have preserved America’s checks and balances in ways we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that competing parties accept one another as legitimate rivals, and forbearance, or the idea that politicians should exercise restraint in deploying their institutional prerogatives.”
― Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die