Isabeau Vollhardt > Quotes

“I uncover hidden truths, I don’t pander to other’s notions of how the events of the world should come out.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“Pahadron glanced around. “No, dear,” he leaned into the open window, "I’m simply telling you to keep away from my sources of revenue, or the payment I’ll exact from the both of you will be more than you’re able to part with in comfort.” His smile vanished, his dark eyes glittered, and his meaning was quite clear to me.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“People absorbed in a task, especially when it aggrandizes them somehow, are numb to the world at hand.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“Usually I’m asked to solve a case that’s definitely real. Your distress is genuine, however, so I’ll see what I can find out, but I must warn you that I can’t be sure of success. A dream isn’t tangible evidence, after all.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“Although Chief Nalte and the Pythoness Cardea had been discrete about the mishap, I could see by the nodding and murmuring ascending the amphitheatre, row by row, that news of the concern over the girls’ disappearance was spreading.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey