The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4)

by Evie Dunmore

“Leaders wage war over power,” Catriona said, unmoved. “The fairy tales they spin to rally the common soldier is of course quite another matter.”

As long as one native is left alive, so is the history.”

The cruel irony that the displaced turned to the shores of the displacer was not lost on him, but the truth was that a home without a future felt like a graveyard to the young.

I just can’t hear myself well when I’m surrounded by people, and when the noise persists for too long, it feels as though I’m disappearing.”

“I don’t care whether she is from the depths of the sea, or the surface of the moon. It’s her, or no one.”