Ulrike

“You don’t like pink?”  “I shouldn’t think anyone likes pink as much as that room does,” said Bryony.”
― T. Kingfisher, Bryony and Roses

“It is somehow easier to face things when one is not alone. Courage still does most of the heavy lifting, but Pride gets its shoulder in there, too, just to keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of the other person...or hedgehog, as the case may be.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, damnit. ”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“Unlike the mice, gremlins really were a problem. If you ground one into flour on accident, the bread had a tendency to explode in the oven, or bleed when you cut into it, or turn into a flock of starlings and tear around the cottage shrieking, and then people came around and had words with the miller, many of which had only four letters and involved hand gestures.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride