Aly

“It would be a bloodbath,” said Istvhan, not quite under his breath. “But mostly not our blood.” “There will not be a bloodbath!” hissed the Bishop. “I absolutely forbid a bloodbath at this hour!” “We could wait until morning?” “No one is having a bloodbath at any hour!” There was a thunder of wheels on the cobblestones. “Oh,” said the Bishop. “Someone else. Yay.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“I know you’re not insinuating that the woman who carried and birthed you, enormous potato head and all, was involved in that idiotic conspiracy with the Tanzeem.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“It really was annoying, she thought, when the job for which she’d been formally trained and which she was paid to perform by the local government got in the way of her unpaid amateur homicide detection.”
― C.M. Waggoner, The Village Library Demon Hunting Society

“Do you have a name?” he asked. “I do. Do you?” His lips twitched. “Yes?” “Excellent. We are both named beings.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength