We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm. She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun.“Surrender!” I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat.“Ha!” She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain.
— Sabaa TahirPut your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.
— Nicole CastroMy name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
— Scott LynchYou don’t even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.
— S.R. CrawfordPlease!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. ‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.
— Rick RiordanGod must think her a badass because he’d handed her this moment, and he didn’t dole out shit she couldn’t handle. That was a fact taught long ago by that miserable bitch called life.
— Cristin HarberThey always always understimate women.
— Susan EeWhat are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.
— Cristin HarberEverything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling — you give the line that the audience wants to hear.
— Rick YanceyIt's not your job to like me, it's mine.
— Bryon Katie