Larae Bauguess

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“Completely oblivious to either the angry mob around her or to her own nakedness, the woman walked right up to Roan and, in a voice that was both sultry and fragile said, “I have found her.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy