Things will be as they always are, he tells me. Only more so.
A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted.No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die.Maybe you can help her after all, M...
She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had,...
He stares at me in blankly. Are you accusing me of not caring for your sister? he asks.If I truly believed you didn’t care for Taryn, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.He gives a long sigh. Beca...
Whatever you love, that is your weakness
So what are you really wearing? The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced.He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. And if I said nothing at al...
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.
Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again.
Mutually assured destruction.
His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more intimate than the way he’s touching me, to be looked at like that. I h...
Call wasn’t sure what it meant that he’d gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn’t manage to impress him.
You're yourself, Tana said, grinning. More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.
He rises from the throne. Come, have a seat. His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible.This is what you...
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness
I have said that he has the power to deliver a compliment and make it hurt. So, too, he can say something that ought to be insulting and deliver it in such a way that it feels like being truly seen.
Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.
The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, sh...
Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.