Hard-choices Quote by Susanna Kearsley

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.”

— Victor Hugo

“One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.”

— Esther M. Friesner

“At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live.…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man…

— Mitch Rowland

“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.”

— Tiziana Stupia

“A good soldier ponders the Word of God; he mulls it over, chews on it, and eats it so that he will bleed it…

— Jared C. Wilson

“Never wound a foe when you can kill him”

— George R R Martin

“Maybe honor wasn’t always something won by a blade, I thought. And maybe it couldn’t be so easily stripped away, even in servitude.”

— Lesley Livingston

“He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Killing men is not like fencing. There's no room for fine touches in battle. Every second that you blade is stuck in one man's…

— Tim Stead

“I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“The blade must cut, even at its own peril.”

— Marc Cameron