What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.