Jane

“Will had long ago learned not to interrupt when an admirer described his play as if the poet was hearing the plot for the first time.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens

“What a word, Will! Vandalized! Did you just make that up?"

"It was you who spoke of Vandals, sir."

"Yes, I did! An excellent word.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens

“He imagined this was the sort of shadow battle Queen Elizabeth had fought her entire reign—starting as a young woman alone, besieged by foreign kings and English nobles who would marry her crown, always steps behind grizzled courtiers like Lord Burghley. No! Rarely steps behind. She was steps ahead or she would never have survived so long.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens

“Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre