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

“I’m good at tailing people. I was an intelligence officer during World War I. My code name was the Crab." - Roderick Childermass”
― John Bellairs, The Curse of the Blue Figurine

“To fuss is human; to rant, divine!”
― John Bellairs, The Curse of the Blue Figurine

“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