Arbitrate or Die (The Exceptional S. Beaufont, #2)

by Sarah Noffke

You want to believe that he’s learned his lesson, she replied. But rehabilitation isn’t always an option for some.

those with nothing to lose were the most dangerous.

Taking care of your feet is almost as important as taking care of your heart.”

“And my armor isn’t just pink. It’s practical. I have pockets. So there.”

“And they say you riders are supposed to have enhanced senses. Only thing most of you bunch have is an enhanced ego.”

“The thing about the soulless is, when they lose, they would rather bring everyone down with them than search for redemption.”

How could they solve other’s problems if they couldn’t solve their own?

It had actually been Bell taking a bath in a lake that started the rumors regarding the Loch Ness Monster.

“That’s the thing about being a mother. Your children surprise you all the time. I never think I can love them more, but somehow I do.”

“Sometimes, the most complex things in the world need to be called by the simplest names, like the elements or love or joy.”

“And some of us strategize, knowing that ego-driven ones will get wet for us.”

“It is rarely the act that we must do that changes things, but rather our intention behind them,”

“It is a child’s prerogative to ask that incessant question, but it is a mother’s right to say, ‘because I said so.’”

“Thanks, but I’m obviously no mother of dragons,”