I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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’re a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
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...
The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.
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...
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...
They see themselves in you and are blinded.
She fell asleep like a flame being extinguished.
It was good to be hugged. Even by a monster.
I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.
Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.
Can't get away from your own self.
My mortal father used to say, .
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...
Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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.