Emily

“My throat tightened. 'I'm not good at these games. Not like you are, Mamma.'

'Then don't play. Figure out what you are good at, and make that the game.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Tethered Mage

“is an immutable law of the universe that whenever you listen to NPR in a strange place, it will be Pledge Week.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“He’d also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha’s daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn’t much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted