Carmi Philander

“Nash picked up a cupcake and took a bite out of it like it was an apple. "For what it's worth, I vote for red velvet next." Libby turned back to me. "Salted caramel it is.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It's not exciting if nothing can go wrong.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars