“ Eleanore, he whispered again, tilting his head to mine, his lips skimming past my cheek, his breath in my ear. I'd wait forever for you, you know. If it mattered. If you'd care.I do care, I whispered… Shana Abe
“ I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will. Shana Abe
“ The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yo… Shana Abe
“ My neck was slender and long and I could bend it nearly all the way about to take in my body: also slender, also shining.I was a dragon of gold, as if Jesse had touched me and transmuted me but not ta… Shana Abe
“ I confess, as much as I enjoy you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well.She studied him through the eyeholes. You truly stopped trying to be charming.You're the most ravishing creature in th… Shana Abe
“ I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time I’d tried.I could glide, though. Probably.Maybe.Should worse come to worst, I could smoke up… Shana Abe
“ I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating. Shana Abe
“ I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow. Shana Abe
“ You’d better marry her before she reaches eighteen and the spell wears off, I said.Spell?Yes. The one that’s hiding her fangs and pincers from plain sight.I don’t find them especially hidden, he said… Shana Abe
“ The duke’s son and the pauper girl. I suppose as a couple we were the most interesting thing in view.I took the champagne glass from Armand and finished what he hadn’t. As Sophia had said, it wasn’t s… Shana Abe
“ She was too compelling to look at directly. Bright like the sun, bright and terrible. Only one other being could look upon her, and that was Death. And so…they became lovers.He said the word like a ca… Shana Abe
“ I’d dreamed once of a forest of gold, and Jesse had done what he could to give it to me. His bedroom had been transformed into a wonderland of leaves and flowers, pinecones and branches of birch and o… Shana Abe
“ It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fa… Shana Abe
“ By the next afternoon, a shepherd boy had heard his shouts and he’d been hauled up the cliffs and confined to an empty pigeon house, the sole survivor of his doomed mission.Gone cracked, though, from… Shana Abe
“ There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do n… Shana Abe
“ No. He caught her back to him, spreading his fingers over her uninjured cheek. Listen. When you were twelve years old I saw you for the first time. Truly saw you. And from then on, I took note wheneve… Shana Abe
“ I’ll start in the air, I said, far more steadily than I thought I could, considering. I knelt to tie the shirt around his thigh, cinching it tight above the wound; he stiffened but let me finish the k… Shana Abe
