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...
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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,...
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...
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
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.
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.
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...
Call wasn’t sure what it meant that he’d gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn’t manage to impress him.
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...
Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness
He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud....
You put a curse on that girl over there, I tell him. Fix her .She admired my ears, the boy says. I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor.That’s what I am going to say after I gut you and...
We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down lik...
Things will be as they always are, he tells me. Only more so.
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.
Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.
So you'll teach me? Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. I will make you as terrible as you desire.I don't want to be - , she started, but he held up his hand.I know you're very brave, he said.Or stupid. stup...
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.