Where Shadows Dance Quotes

“Lord love us, I need a drink,” said Calhoun, looking faintly green around the gills as he paused on the flagway in front of the chapel to draw in a deep breath of fresh air. “I’ve dressed many a gentleman in my career—sober, drunk, and even dead. But I must say, this is the first time I’ve ever been called upon to dress one who was in bits.”   Monday,”
― C.S. Harris, Where Shadows Dance

“War tends to make us all students of diplomacy, does it not? There is a story that Napoléon once told the widow of the Marquis de Condorcet that he detested women who meddled in politics. Do you know her reply?’

Sebastian shook his head.

‘She said, “You are right, of course, General. But in a country where one cuts off women’s heads, it is natural that they should wish to know the reason why.”
― C.S. Harris, Where Shadows Dance

“diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.”
― C.S. Harris, Where Shadows Dance