Emrys

“It still felt a little icky. “It’s slavery, though. It’s… it’s wrong. We don’t do that here.” “Yeah, you do, Chosen,” Cecil chipped in. “Not in the States.” “Oh, you do. It’s even legal. Your governments just repurposed it and put it in a prettier package. Now, it’s called penal labor.”
― Lauretta Hignett, It's Called Magic, Susan

“True to form, he did, in fact. While I was thanking the lady on your behalf for her kind agreement to watch over him for the afternoon, he managed to steal her only pair from underneath her armchair. The lady was, however, most gracious about having lost them to Master Gladstone’s rather soggy collection.”
― Verity Bright, Mystery by the Sea

“your nightmares could not possibly prepare you for the horrors you might find lurking in the darkness.” “I spent three years as a trauma therapist at a women’s hospital in Tennessee,” Bronwyn said dryly. “Forgive me, but as a man, I don’t think you can fathom the horrors that lurk in the darkness.” Donovan paused for a second, then, he nodded. “I concede your point.”
― Lauretta Hignett, It's Called Magic, Susan

“The ancient wizard hadn’t referred to the years of his youth as some magical positive time, he’d merely said they were unique. And that was true.”
― J.M. Clarke, Mark of the Fool 3