moss books quoted Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)
My mother never thought any higher of brigands than she did of knights, and her low opinion of both had rubbed off on me. My dads were even more critical, since they likened brigands to pirates and had nothing nice to say about pirates. As my mom put it, knights rob people in the name of whatever noble rules the area, who sort of gives back by protecting the borders from invasion and by killing the worst of the brigands. Brigands rob people for themselves, and they sort of give back by maintaining some of the roads—the roads they patrol to demand tolls—and by killing the worst of the knights.
— Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1) (37%)











