Shera Hagist

“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“I look at an objective,’ answered Vasili, ‘and I do my best to analyse the problems inherent in reaching it.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Circle

“There were some for whom the world was such a tricky thing that they marvelled at it without feeling any need to puzzle it out.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“It/ll be better tomorrow...”
― Hubert Selby Jr., The Demon