After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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.
You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last. Not ever? I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he want...
You both ... you both saved me?Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, an...
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skinDo you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown? Roiben's...
There's something easy about the idea that vampirism is some kind of disease- then they can't help it if they attack us, that they commit murders and atrocities, that they can only control themselves...
I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it
I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to l...
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...
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.
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...
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.