“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”

“Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.”

“It wasnt that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”

“She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she had to be fed and cleaned every now and then, but she was left to her own devices for the most p...”

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”

“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”

“The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.”

“Speed is dangerous if your direction is wrong.”

“Scared people did scary things sometimes,”

“He took my family, Adamat said. Blackmailed me, and he still has my wife and oldest son. I want to get them back, and then kill him slowly.A lot of violence planned, for a family man, the eunuch sa...”

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...”