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1 " I better go," Carter squeezed me once more and stood, grabbing his wallet from the coffee table. " I need to hit up the lottery if I want to get you out of this mess. Will you let me buy a monkey if we win, though?" " Only if you buy me an island off the coast of Fiji." " You crazy-ass woman. A monkey is so much cooler than an island." " How about a monkey IN Fiji?" " Now there's a woman after my own heart," Carter slapped his hand to his chest, sighing dramatically. " I'll let you know if we win." He started for the door." Uh huh." " You'll know if we do. I'll be the one streaking on Pike Street. "
2 " Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a war be condemned? War is not shameful, nor the sword-thrust a stab in the back, except when it serves to kill right and progress, reason, civilization, and truth. When this is war's purpose it maeks no difference whether it is civil or foreign war - it is a crime. Outside the sacred cause for justice, what grounds has one kind of war for denigrating another? By what right does the sword of Washington despise the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Which is the greater - Leonidas fighting the foreign enemy or Timoleon slaying the tyrant who was his brother? One was a defender, the other a liberator. Are we to condemn every resort to arms that takes place within the citadel, without concerning ourselves with its aim? "
3 " Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows. "
― , Equality
4 " The truth a fairly important thing to hold on to when you’ve been pulled out of the sea after wanting to drown in it. I could’ve let the sea take me. I could easily be dead now, which is funny when you think of it. When I say funny, what I actually mean is weird and kind of disturbing.When there’s the loud sound of a siren screaming in your head it doesn’t take too long before a feeling of not caring what happens washed over you and you become recklessly self- destructive. I used to be full of energy and happiness but I could barely remember those kinds of feelings. The cheerful, childish things I used to think had been replaced. A whole load of new realisations had begun to grow inside me like tangled weeds, and they were starting to kill me. That’s why I’d make the decision that involved heading ogg to the pier on my pike in the middle of the night and cycling off it. "
― Sarah Moore Fitzgerald , The Apple Tart of Hope
5 " I don't believe in monsters." " Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. " What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony? "
6 " All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people. "
― Tamora Pierce , The Will of the Empress (The Circle Reforged, #1)
7 " I miss the days of burning your kind at the stake. For generations we have settled for financial ruin and ostracization of your whorish ancestors - but know this, I will personally gut you and put your head on a pike in my parlor. "
― Heather McVea , Fallen Elements
