This is absurd. This is awful. This isn’t how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.
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...
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’s really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?
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 turned to me, head titled, her expression pure confusion. As though I had no reason to be afraid of a broken heart. She had no idea how dangerous a broken heart could be. You do, though. You know.
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 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.
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.
Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.
Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole
Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide? Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. Could you guys try to lay low?
It’s disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.
It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer.