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“Last year's fashions were all lace and ruffles. I refused to add a single ruffle, which means that I may continue wearing this gown in style *and* that I did not spend last year looking like a birthday cake. An enormous savings in both money and dignity.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

“I had always thought of the past like a place: an old house you could go back into if only the door hadn't been locked behind you. But we were the house, and we were the door, and we were the lock.”
― Taran Hunt, The Unkillable Princess

“Sometimes, contempt for the person you don't want to become can get you through those times when courage otherwise falters.”
― Nicholas Atwater, Echoes of the Imperium

“That is very horrifying and I want to go home," I said, although I pronounced it, "Ah. I see.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep