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.
A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame's future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors ar...
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder, Locke calls after me.We would be surprised to find that, I call back.
When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?
I am tired of caring, I say. Why should I?Because they could kill you!They better, I say to her. Because anything less than that isn’t going to work.
He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky...
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons -- because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, becau...
Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her.If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there? Lucien asked.Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve he...
In her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste i...
You have a skill. You can do something no one else can, Barron says. Seriously. You know what’s good about that? It’s valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I...
You don’t know what you are.
He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.