Along the Razor's Edge (The War Eternal, #1)

by Rob J. Hayes

In a room full of murderers, the second person to die is usually the first person to start the killing.

The past shapes how we react to things in the future, and the future shapes how we view events of the past.

We cling to things, familiar things, not because they are good for us, but because we are scared that the unknown might be worse.

There is an innocence in children that is only matched by their cruelty. There is also the rarest form of acceptance and compassion. Only children can go from complete strangers to closest of friends in a moment. Trust and love can take a lifetime to build in adults, but in children it can take a second.

"Unpredictable to your enemies is good. Unpredictable to your friends is bad. Hard to catch a person when you don't know which way she'll jump."

Another lesson to learn, if a job's worth doing, it's worth hiring someone to do it properly.

"Freedom is rarely free,"

Fear is speculation more often than it is truth. The truth is almost never as terrifying as imagination makes it seem. Almost never.

Reputation is a blade with no hilt, it cuts both ways.