Elena Salvatore

“Save their world. But... come back to mine."
"That's rather forward of you, Mr. Cat."
He grinned. But it wasn't just like the Cheshire Cat's smile. There was warmth in it, and even love.
"I'm not the single young lady who goes knocking on strange barristers' doors," he pointed out.
"Hmmph," Alice said, sniffing. "Excellent point.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“You're the most interesting person I've talked to in ages."
Not you're a bright light in a dark corner of the world, not a fair face in a gloomy neighborhood, not a muse or a nymph or an angel with a rosy smile to bestow on her willing supplicants. None of that nonsense verbiage men usually offered her. He asked her to return, very simply, because he wanted to talk to her.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Hatters really were said to have gone mad in the nineteenth century because of exposure to mercury in their hat-making processes: in effect, they suffered long-term mercury poisoning.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Alice wondered, perhaps for the first time-although certainly not the last-if all human conflicts were started by men who thought they were doing it for a woman.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday