What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I’m not?
We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows.
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka.To Zacharov! one toasts.To open hearts an...
That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She felt ripe to bursting.
So I am to sit here and feed you information, Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. And you’re to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward.I fix him with a look. I can be charming. I char...
She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.
Sam counts the money carefully. I watch him in the mirror. You know what I wish? he asks when he’s done.What?That someone would convert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the dea...
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real proble...
No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.
Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call’s eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring...
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They...
Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?
Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth... Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her ent...
It’s funny how you get under his skin.At first, I’m not sure I heard him right. I almost ask whom he’s talking about, because I can’t quite believe he’s admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affect...
It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds.Don't, I warn him.He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedles...
It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.