Status Updates From A Girl Called Samson

“…it is one thing to be treasured and it is another to be a treasure. One is valued, one is possessed, and people aren’t possessions.”

“We were quiet then, caught in the tangle of mercy and justice and which was which.”

“…I was a believer. Not all the soldiers were. Some of them were animals. Maybe war made them that way, but I suspected that war just revealed their hooves and snouts.”

“I do not know what the future holds or where I will find the stamina to continue. But if we have won the war, as some believe, I will call myself blessed for the gifts—gifts Deacon Thomas thought wasted on a woman—that have brought me before great men.”

“I was accepted as a man because for me to be a woman was unfathomable.”