Natalie

“If you have ever prepared for a siege in two days, then you know what the next few days were like. If you haven’t, then you probably don’t. Well…a big formal wedding is about the same (and because we do cakes, I’ve been on the periphery of a few), except that if things go wrong in a siege you’ll all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

“Don't ask me where the cookies get the dances they do--this batch had been doing hornpipes. The last batch did waltzes, and the one before that hade performed a decidedly lewd little number that had even made Aunt Tabitha blush. A little too much spice in those, I think.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I stuck both hands into the soup tureen and tried to convince him that what the world needed was a whole lot more Bob.
As this coincided with what Bob himself had always believed, pretty soon I had commandeered a horse trough and had footmen dumping fifty pound sacks of flour into it.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking