I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.Then I go home and shave until my skin i...
I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me s...
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
He leans in and closes his eyes. Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop. I am shocked into silence.
He leans in and closes his eyes. Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.
Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?Val looked back. I'm not sure, actually.
Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid of by repaying. So eager, in fact, that people will often overpay just to be re...
Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don’t trust wolves. Don’t steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don’t trust people who want to shar...
Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. Not everybody wakes up right after.
Did you know that bone china had real bones in it? Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl...
Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havo...
But what if I actually becoming besotted with him?Cardan is more knowledgeable than I am at love. He could use that against me, just as I asked him to use it against Nicasia. Perhaps he found a way t...
But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there.We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't.What...
But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it’s gone. The door isn’t there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.
Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.
As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across th...
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt g...
As I make my way back to the tournament and my sisters, I can’t stop thinking of Cardan’s shocked face, nor can I stop considering Locke’s smile. I am not altogether sure which is more thrilling and w...
Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them.
All boys lie, Ben said. And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.