Dystopian-novel Quote by Rie Warren

“It hurts, but I can bear it. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier…

— Leigh Bardugo

“You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.”

— George R.R. Martin

“A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you…

— Karen Marie Moning

“I'd much rather you assumed for yourself a higher rank than mere menial labourer for the duration of this great adventure.' He paused. 'You…

— Steven Erikson

“Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.”

— E.M. Forster

“Underneath his battle armor, the man who commanded an armored battalion needed her. If he was wounded, she could bandage him. If he was…

— Paullina Simons

“Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“CAPTAIN. Well, you dear, have I forgotten it? You have been like a mother to me, and always have stood by me when I…

— August Strindberg

“By the time I emerge from them, I have somehow left in the quiet of the woods all that I thought was important when…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My…

— Rae Carson

“Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,”

— Sherwood Smith

“I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.”

— Pierce Brown