{"quotes":[{"text":"Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.","author":"Peter Milligan","tags":["assault","game","rules"],"id":16656,"author_id":"Peter+Milligan"},{"text":"Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.","author":"Emily Nagoski","tags":["assault","men","rape","safety","women"],"id":18285,"author_id":"Emily+Nagoski"},{"text":"Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.","author":"Shahla Khan","tags":["assault","domestic violence","enjoyment","fun","harassment","melody","pain","powerless","rape","suffering","violence"],"id":62536,"author_id":"Shahla+Khan"},{"text":"The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The soldiers screamed terrible battle-cries as they began their grim job of clearing the defenders off the parapet with quick professional close-quarter work. Gamble trod on a fallen ramrod and his boots crunched on burnt wadding. The French reached steps and began descending into the bastion.'Bayonets!' Powell bellowed. 'I want bayonets!''Charge the bastards!' Gamble screamed, blinking another man's blood from his eyes. There was no drum to beat the order, but the marines and seamen surged forward.'Tirez!' The French had been waiting, and their muskets jerked a handful of attackers backwards. Their officer, dressed in a patched brown coat, was horrified to see the savage looking men advance unperturbed by the musketry. His men were mostly conscripts and they had fired too high. Now they had only steel bayonets with which to defend themselves.'Get in close, boys!' Powell ordered. 'A Shawnee Indian named Blue Jacket once told me that a naked woman stirs a man's blood, but a naked blade stirs his soul. So go in with the steel. Lunge! Recover! Stance!''Charge!' Gamble turned the order into a long, guttural yell of defiance.Those redcoats and seamen, with loaded weapons discharged them at the press of the defenders, and a man in the front rank went down with a dark hole in his forehead. Gamble saw the officer aim a pistol at him. A wounded Frenchman, half-crawling, tried to stab with his sabre-briquet, but Gamble kicked him in the head. He dashed forward, sword held low. The officer pulled the trigger, the weapon tugged the man's arm to his right, and the ball buzzed past Gamble's mangled ear as he jumped down into the gap made by the marines charge. A French corporal wearing a straw hat drove his bayonet at Gamble's belly, but he dodged to one side and rammed his bar-hilt into the man's dark eyes. 'Lunge! Recover! Stance!","author":"David Cook","tags":["assault","british army","ebook","fiction","fortress","french-revolution","historical-fiction","history","malta","military-history","royal-marines","royal-navy","war"],"id":111697,"author_id":"David+Cook"},{"text":"No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes 'justice being done.","author":"Garth Ennis","tags":["assault","baseball","baseball-bat","justice"],"id":148445,"author_id":"Garth+Ennis"},{"text":"Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.","author":"Brenna Ehrlich","tags":["asphalt","assault","beard","blood","chest","city","clothes","creepy","crime","criminal","denim","fabric","friendship","girl","grab","hobo","horror","jeans","lips","mugging","police","rape","sidewalk","teenager","terror"],"id":162205,"author_id":"Brenna+Ehrlich"},{"text":"Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["assault","lie","natural-soul","thinking"],"id":199862,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["anger","assault","black-eye","couples-fights","drunkenness","heartbreak","love","marriage","toxic-relationships"],"id":203541,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"Religion allows people to feel justified in acting out their primal instincts, that is, to assault, destroy, rape, and murder others, who they judge as being different and inferior to themselves.","author":"Robert Black","tags":["assault","murder","rape","religion"],"id":307965,"author_id":"Robert+Black"},{"text":"Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["assassination","assault","character","character-assassination","conviction","dislike","do-what-you-love","dont-give-up","food-for-thought","hate","hatred","israelmore-ayivor","love","love-what-you-do","never-give-up","non-formal","passion","passionate","rejection","societal-rejection","society","torment","torments","verbal-assault"],"id":310674,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}