Patricia

“Try it,” she said at last. Reka blinked. “Try what?” “Happiness.” Grace rose, smoothing her skirt. “It’s a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old robe is all you’ve got, and there isn’t anything else in the wardrobe that fits.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“Section 24 was the nickname for agents working under a section of the immigration law that empowered the secretary of labor to deport people. A power that’d been sorely abused. New York policemen had long warned about Section 24 agents behaving like gangsters, roughing people up and raiding private homes and dance halls looking for immigrants to blackmail with threats of deportation if they didn’t pay protection money.”
― Stephanie Dray, Becoming Madam Secretary

“We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. And remember, we are not descended from fearful men.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“at some point she’d have to think about a real position with a proper salary, but for now she was happy to drift through the months with a patchwork collection of odd jobs.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club