Tinks > Tinks's Quotes

“Men’s deaths are epic, women’s deaths are tragic: is that it? He has misunderstood the very nature of conflict. Epic is countless tragedies, woven together. Heroes don’t become heroes without carnage, and carnage has both causes and consequences. And those don’t begin and end on a battlefield.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“is Oenone less of a hero than Menelaus? He loses his wife so he stirs up an army to bring her back to him, costing countless lives and creating countless widows, orphans and slaves. Oenone loses her husband and she raises their son. Which of those is the more heroic act?”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“The bards all sing of the bravery of heroes and the greatness of your deeds: it is one of the few elements of your story on which they all agree. But no one sings of the courage required by those of us who were left behind.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“It takes a certain kind of cruelty, Odysseus, to look upon desperate men and see only swine.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“She had long since learned that no one heard the truth from her, that even if they listened, they did not hear.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace. The poet may not want to learn this,”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“Sometimes the cheapest things are the most valuable.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I want to see her. Study her. Determine if she's a real threat and how much she potentially knows. I'm the hostile wolf with an insatiable prey drive, and she's the little lamb that's accidentally wandered into my path. I’ve caught her scent and now I can't stop until I take her down.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive

“I inhale her scent—a strong mix of coconut, vanilla, and coffee.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive

“My beautiful, deadly little Stardust, as I've decided to call her. A representation of the complicated supernova of feelings I've experienced since first laying eyes on her. Like the dusty remains of a star's chaotic explosion, she’s somehow managed to coat every piece of my existence with her bejeweling presence, and she doesn’t even know who I am.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive