Shelley Connor

“I am not afraid. The Devil has been hanging around us for weeks. I am no more afraid of him in a cunning woman's cell than I would be in my own chamber. It is the men who rule us that I am afraid of.”
― Kate Foster, The King's Witches

“Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them that no one meant any harm.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“When we live in fear, it controls us. Every decision we make is smothered by it.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“Shite!' he said, knowing as the word escaped his lips that it was not quite appropriate, not the right word for the occasion. Well, what was he, a man or a thesaurus?”
― Ian Rankin, Hide and Seek