Evelyn Jane

“But choices are so much easier afterward,” Simon said, clambering to his feet. Towser stared fixedly into the wavering candleflame. “I mean, at the moment you have to decide on things, you never know enough. It’s only later that you see everything.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“Madam.” He frowned at her. “I am a butler. Do you truly believe that I do not know how to dispatch a houseguest if required?”
― T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

“The problem with being rich is that you simply have no idea how expensive it is to be poor.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

“After hundreds of years, if there were so many sinners left, what had the Inquisition accomplished? They might root out Jews and Muslims and Erasmists and alumbrados, but then what was left? The machine had been built to consume heresy and impiety, so would it simply keep finding heresy and impiety to feed on? Valentina's soul certainly hadn't been saved. The vicar's threats hadn't made her good, only scared--and not of purgatory. All this spectacle, all this misery, and she didn't fear hell more than being shut up in a house with her lawful husband.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar