Ora Dorton

“Why are peasant men and women allowed to gather together after dinner, sharing stories by the hearth? What is it about the upper class that strives to separate us by gender, economics, and history?”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“     ‘And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’
 ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years apart.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For