The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)

by Joe Abercrombie

Rikke frowned. ‘Don’t like it when folk say they can be relied on. Implies a strong possibility they can’t be.

‘You’re mad,’ she whispered. ‘I’ve heard that before, too! But mad’s just a different way of seeing things.

In her efforts to fade into the background, indeed, she had done everything short of wear a dress that matched the wallpaper.