Lorena

“If you have ever prepared for a siege in two days, then you know what the next few days were like. If you haven’t, then you probably don’t. Well…a big formal wedding is about the same (and because we do cakes, I’ve been on the periphery of a few), except that if things go wrong in a siege you’ll all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

“She knew many things, and she knew nothing. She could feel the inadequacy of her neatly ordered facts confronted by the cacophony of living cultures.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“In mathematics you had peer review, definite proofs and answers, but war was nothing but uncertainty multiplied by uncertainty.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit