Julee Trenbeath

“A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“But the next time you hear a story like the one that ran
on the front page of The New York Times in October of 1997, reporting on “the
ageold animosity between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups,” remember that
until Mbonyumutwa’s beating lit the spark in 1959 there had never been
systematic political violence recorded between Hutus and Tutsis—anywhere.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families