The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be
She says that what you did was a cry for help. It was, I say. That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it wa...
There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I’ve been fighting my own shadow.
Whatever you love, that is your weakness
You could still be lying, says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. Try her.Your pardon? Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he’s speaking in such an offhanded...
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's imp...
I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
I don’t know, Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.
Feels almost like real agent work, doesn’t it? Barron says as we walk down the street, heads bowed against the wind. You know, if we caught your girlfriend committing a crime, I bet Yulikova would giv...
Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again.
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wo...
She wanted him to feel like she did, like he'd done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he'd like and really wasn't supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted...