Quotes

Nadya - The Wolf Chronicles by Pat Murphy

"I don't see why you can't settle down. It doesn't seem like so much to wear a dress, to be polite, to behave properly. Not so much."

"I don't want to behave in the proper way. I'm not a civilized woman, you have to understand that."

"Don't look at the past. Look at the present. A gift is being offered to you, but you refuse to take it. You turn away in fear. Triumph and success can be yours. If you don't let your fear take control. You must be brave a little longer, chérie. And in the end ... this could be yours."

"We can't change the way they think. They will not listen, they will not learn, they will not understand. They look at the trees and they see lumber. They listen to the wolves howling and they hear nothing of the joy of the hunt. They don't understand. And because they don't understand they are afraid. They are afraid of the wolves, they are afraid of the wilderness. So they kill the wolves and chop down the trees, leaving nothing behind."

Field of Dishonor by David Weber

"certainly, any political system [has] its own built-in faults. After all, it [is] designed to govern humans, and humanity [can] be counted upon to screw anything up periodically."