No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.
By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms.
He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him.
All elements have a counterweight. Fire is the counterweight of water. Air is the counterweight of earth. The counterweight of chaos is the soul.
You better have kissed him! You better have kissed him so hard that he just about choked on your tongue. And if not, you better go kiss him like that right now.
It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.
You’ve got to grow where you’re planted.
Everything smelled wet and feral like it did before a thunderstorm, and she wanted to run, swift and eager, beyond the edge of what she could see.
She had a way of making everyone around her feel as though every impossible thing was possible.
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.
The job is not to get caught.
I’m no longer a child, and I don’t need comfort.
It seems hopeless to fight something so vast. It seems ridiculous to believe we can win.
I say, because if she doesn’t want to talk about that part, she doesn’t have to.
Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?
Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That’s what you are, what defines you – dying.
I’ve missed the rush of power that comes with playing a game like this, of strategy and cunning. I hate to admit it, but I’ve missed risking my neck. There’s no room for regrets when you’re busy trying to win. Or at least not to die.
And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.
They see themselves in you and are blinded.
For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. “Oh,” he says. “You’re going to regret doing that.