Jane

“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

“There was nothing she loved better than gathering all the little details needed for a perfect event, lining them up with neat little rows, and then causing them to dance like a room full of Victorian lords and ladies.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“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

“Sit a spell, and I will tell you a story you'll never believe.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea