Through Battle and Blades Quotes

“I thought of my father and his inconsistently draconian standards and found my jaw began to lock. “You’ll have a place with us for as long as you need it and, while it’d be lovely if you were well behaved, being perfect all the time is too much to ask of most children. You’re with us because we care about you, Del, not because of anything you may or may not do.”
― Sam Hall, Through Battle and Blades

“Like most women in Grania, I’d grown up surrounded by the opinions, the ideas of men. They told us what it was to be a woman, each message slightly different, depending on their predilections, but the thing that couldn’t be ignored was the absolute right they felt in projecting these ideas upon us. Woman was made to serve man, and so they worked hard to shape us into exactly the right kind of servant. Be graceful, be quiet, be demure, be dainty, be whatever the hell they wanted, and I hadn’t realised what a weight that was until we went across the border to Strelae.”
― Sam Hall, Through Battle and Blades