Beau

“Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision, and they cannot tolerate any other.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“He’d told me the letters stood for Sono Pazzi Quelli Romani—those Romans are crazy. I wasn’t sure if he was kidding.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“What does it say about us when our intimacy is an embarrassment and our hostility is normalized?”
― Philip Gulley, Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe

“They called it liquid courage. It made them funnier, smarter, more creative. Except it didn’t. It just made them less able to tell how unfunny and stupid they were acting.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead