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“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“I’m suggesting that if you’re going to bring hell down upon someone’s head, you should dress for the occasion.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.”
― T. Kingfisher, Toad Words and Other Stories

“Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

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

“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

“One day Turtle had savaged an innocent bowl of batter into something that almost (but not quite) resembled muffins. Her mother, who had a great deal to bear on other fronts which do not enter the scope of this story, except to say that Turtle had three older brothers, each more reprehensible than the last, opened the back door and told Turtle to take herself and her regrettable muffins to her grandmother, and if she had to stay the night, so much the better, as there was going to be a great deal of screaming presently, and Turtle was a bit young to be hearing all the words that Turtle’s mother planned to be using. ”
― T. Kingfisher, Toad Words and Other Stories

“The problem with crying in the woods, by the side of a white road that leads somewhere terrible, is that the reason for crying isn't inside your head. You have a perfectly legitimate and pressing reason for crying, and it will still be there in five minutes, except that your throat will be raw and your eyes will itch and absolutely nothing else will have changed.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“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

“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

“No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Ugh, emotions.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“But I couldn’t ignore it. I mean, I guess I couldn’t. Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“1)  CodeBundle.LockItDown had closed all the hatches on board except those directly between SecUnit 3’s position and the shuttle access. 2)  CodeBundle.FuckThem had fried all targetDrones. 3)  CodeBundle.FuckThisToo had cut the connections between the solid-state screen device and the humans’ implants. Oh, and I shut down life support on the bridge so the Targets in there would be thinking about other things besides restarting their screen.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“How did you like jail?"
"It radicalized me.”
― Dorothy Gilman, A Nun in the Closet

“He was one of those staunch patriotic Britons who, having made a portion of a foreign country their own, strongly resent the original inhabitants of it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train