Jewel

“At the moment she was reading a story about an archaeologist who had uncovered a plot to kill an Egyptian nobleman when he read the hieroglyphics in a previously unopened tomb in the Valley of the Kings. They revealed a curse on the nobleman’s family through time, all the way back to Ramesses. She’d had a marvellous time reading up about the tombs across the Nile from Luxor in Egypt and saw some truly graphic pictures of people who were now blind because of the river blindness caused by the blackfly there.”
― Jean Grainger, Last Port of Call

“This isn’t proper.” “Proper just grew wings and flew away.”
― Julia Tong, The General's Perfect Wife

“Isla is lactose-intolerant.”
― Lauren Palphreyman, The Wolf King

“Then wherever they are, the Diviners are in terrible danger.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth