Merlene Dauzart

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“Is it you are going to buy me dinner twice in one week?”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens

“That was how you survived. See the world as it is. Not as you think it is. Not as you want it to be, or think it should be. Not even as it was yesterday. See it exactly as it is, right now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“After three days of hibernation….Šarlatová, the red witch, finally awoke.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy