CJ

“This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.”
― Judith Tarr, White Mare's Daughter

“Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.”
― Charles Dickens

“If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.”
― Judith Tarr, White Mare's Daughter