Emily

“I expect it's hard for witches ... now that most people work in shops and factories, and haven't any crops to ruin. They must be terribly sad, those witches, to have to go from blighting wheat fields to blighting houseplants.”
― Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror

“Women were always forced to smile. Tamsen had mastered it so well it sometimes frightened her.”
― Alma Katsu, The Hunger

“Perhaps you would not like being married to me,' Beauty said. 'I do not know how to talk to people, and I have terrible taste in shirts.”
― Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror

“Darren had always wanted to believe that theirs was the last generation to have to live that way, that change might trickle down from the White House. When in fact the opposite had proved to be true. In the wake of Obama, America had told on itself.”
― Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird