Clara

“Their mother, Lady Mary, had been born the youngest daughter of the Early of Elmsley but had defied the conventions of the ton by marrying a freedman of Senegalese birth whom she had met through her work with the abolition. And whereas in the enlightened twenty-first century the marriage of a British aristocrat to a Person of Colour is a wholly unremarkable thing that results in no hostility whatsoever, in the bad old days of the 1800s it caused quite the scandal.

Isn't it wonderful to know how far your species has come?”
― Alexis Hall, Confounding Oaths

“OH? I don't need to dwell on the details? What, is this not an 'integral part of the historical record' or whatever such nonsense you like to natter about? YOU'RE blushing? How do you think I felt being stared at by the glass eyes of a dozen long-dead creatures and surrounded by stone pen*ses all day?”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“It is better for children to love their parents than to be afraid of them,' she said. 'You see, if they're afraid and they do something wrong, they don't come out with it. It just piles up in side them and goes on getting worse.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Alington Inheritance

“Nutty people don't rat on you. Nice, friendly, ordinary next-door neighbor types--they would rat on you and think nothing of it.”
― John Bellairs, The Curse of the Blue Figurine