Ulrike

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

“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

“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