" These games you play with swords and knives, poisons and acids' you think this is danger' You girls don't even know the hurt that a sharp edge can do' a slip of the wrist and you're opened to the world, blood, bone, nerves, guts, all the soft wonder of a body cut through. If you live the pain can last a lifetime, the loss' if you live. "

― Mark Lawrence , Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)