Feisty-heroine Quote by Julia Mills

“Ah-ha! On the stove was a cast-iron skillet. Perfect. Precisely how hard did you have to hit someone on the head to knock him…

— Linda Grimes

“Jared gripped me tighter. "If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.”

— Penelope Douglas

“I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.”

— Lisa Shearin

“If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a…

— Rosie Pugh

“Your Majesty." a guard called, racing over to us. "You have to get downstairs now!" He gruffly turned Maxon around and shoved him away.…

— Kiera Cass

“I wanted it-like iron.”

— Jean Rhys

“Ha! Good luck, lady!" Gustav laughed and tapped his thick index finger against his temple. "No one knows what goes on inside this head.…

— Christopher Healy

“He had no other weapon than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away with him when…

— Victor Hugo

“Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.”

— Robert Harris

“take whatever we cooked already.” He pointed to the hot-plates, over on the side. “But you heard”

— John Stonehouse

“That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a…

— Kentaro Miura

“I think you can lower your weapon now.”

— Sydney Somers