The only way to end grief was to go through it.
The Lady or The Tiger,'...'My lady, the tiger,
That's the spirit. Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it look...
Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.
Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom l...
Sometimes, Sam says, I can’t tell when you’re lying. I never lie, I lie.
Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate adm...
She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn’t remembered his features, hadn’t remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughi...
She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.
She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything.
Refills are free, the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
Put your puppet on the throne. said Talathain. You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.
Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.
Our promises don’t matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.
One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.