Generique Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch — Patrick O'Brian

There are moments when we all step away from the light... — Gume Laurel III

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months. — David Ignatius

Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day. — Jacqueline Carey

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels. — Carrie Vaughn

Your ribcage never meant to hurt you.
Your windpipe doesn't know how to be pretty,
but she knows how to howl -
and here, I'd like to take a moment
to submit a formal apology to my soft parts
because they kept me warm
when I was trying to freeze to death,
and I hated them for it. An apology
for a starvation that went deeper than my skin.
One for the strongest skeleton I will ever own
and how I kept using the word girl against it.
Or how I turned words like beautiful into shapes
I could contort myself into. I didn't mean
to compare myself to faces I can't have.
Or spend years trying to carve myself,
like Michelangelo's angels, from the marble -
forgetting what it is to be skin instead of stone.
I let myself be afraid. I was taught to be.
When you learn you are only as good
as your beauty routine, you forget
how to define yourself by anything else. — Ashe Vernon