“ As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class. Kendare Blake
“ It will not be easy for him to see her dead, should they become close. But she has so few friends. She cannot turn one away. Kendare Blake
“ Girls, on the other hand, have always come easy. I don't know why that is, exactly. Maybe it's the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look. Maybe it's something I think I see sometimes in the mi… Kendare Blake
“ This is my favorite part of the hunting. Getting to know them . Hearing their legends. I want them to be as large in my mind as they can possibly be, and when I see them I don't want to be disappointe… Kendare Blake
“ I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in… Kendare Blake
“ I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she… Kendare Blake
“ I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking. Kendare Blake
“ You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat up—in so many interesting ways—from a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on… Kendare Blake
“ What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies. Kendare Blake
“ The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. Kendare Blake
“ I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back. Kendare Blake
“ It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me. Kendare Blake
“ The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants. Kendare Blake
“ You’re sure you didn’t leave? Didn’t try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don’t know, dismember some poor jogger? Kendare Blake
“ I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real. Kendare Blake
“ Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants… Kendare Blake
