Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

by Sherry Thomas

someone to act on my behalf, either one of them

“They are not what makes my husband guilty. They are only what makes his innocence difficult to prove,”

“Decisions are taxing—far more than I ever imagined they’d be, in those days when I longed to make all the decisions.”

We cannot predict outright that we will succeed, but we also have no reason to expect failure.

Evil exists on a far greater scale, so great that it can penetrate an empire from top to bottom, and integrate itself into the very fabric of society. So great that when its worst incarnation had been eradicated, its imprint still remained, more than half a century later.

“I’d always thought that a quintessential aspect of being human—possibly the most quintessential aspect—lay in dealing with what one wanted but could not have. For years I believed I would not have that problem, because all I wanted was independence and I saw a clear path to it. “Then you asked for Lady Ingram’s hand and married her. And I became human. Now I, too, wanted something I couldn’t have. It was . . . an instruction in pain. But that was merely the pain of being alive and being human.” They