A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)

by Deanna Raybourn

Books were my tutors, Mr. Stoker. Anything I wished to learn I taught myself.”

in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

“I can only quote Xenocrates, dear lady. ‘I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.’”