Ayesha

“Sometimes I hated myself but not for long.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there’s no better way to mask a lie—or at least a glaring omission—than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.”
― Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard

“It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse