Alina Quote by Leigh Bardugo

“The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling…

— Leigh Bardugo

“My mauma was shrewd. She didn’t get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years.…

— Robert Jordan

“Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears, she knew…

— Jaclyn A Wilson

“Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.”

— Tatjana Soli

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

“Being the dutiful soldier he was, he didn’t waste energy on trivial matters. If something needed to be done, he did it. If something…

— Mia Dymond

“Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.”

— Aeschylus