Jennifer

“It wasn't that Rove was a genius-level intellect, but he had a very specific set of skills. Lucas wasn't qualified to diagnose sociopathy, but Rove was capable of telling anyone anything, making utterly convincing promises and being bound by none of it. Rove loved Rove first, things useful to Rove second. And nothing else.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Lee kept glancing at them and felt like leaping up and yelling, 'I'll be able to prove everything soon! And you'll be sorry you laughed at me.' But she didn't, of course, because that wouldn't have been very British of her.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“she thinks of double-shifts and boarding-house fleas and all the nothing-girls whose highest hope is for a husband like Floyd Matthews, soft-palmed and stupid, and how it would feel to want more. She thinks of her daddy's knuckles and Mr. Malton's leers and how it would feel to be the dangerous one, for a change.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“You are gullible. Surrounded by people you don't know, with your leaders even less knowable, and you are gullible. Someone says a thing to you strongly enough, you believe them. You take confidence for truth. We don't do that. Someone says a thing, we tell them to show us how it is true...But you let people with strong words tell you what the truth is. Kings, emperors, tyrants. You are about the many for the few, for the one.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden