“That’s exactly the trouble with cockapoos,” observed Monty. “They aren’t natural. They’ve been synthesised, an unnatural splicing of breeds to meet human requirements. Every wolf gene cut out. I can’t stand ’em, ingratiating little buggers, they’ve got the please disease.”
“The law books had taught her arguments. The city taught her war.”
“It wasn’t bullets that killed her father. It was compromise, wrapped in a handshake.”
“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
“She wore her fear like armor, polished and invisible.”
“Power doesn’t seduce, it suffocates.”
“Every oath she made was written in grief’s ink.”
“A sister’s hug can mend what revolutions cannot.”