A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher

The way he said “conveniently” made it sound like I’d been found standing over the body with a bloody baguette.

it’s bread. How do you kill someone with bread?”

Molly understood, though. When you spend most of your time with a dead horse, you learn to respect other people’s weird pets.

You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don’t ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”

“You didn’t fail,” I said. “They wouldn’t let you succeed. It’s different.”