If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!" Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I knew a Thaddeus once." "So did I. He was a blind idiot." "Really?" Kylar said, his eyes dancing. "The one I knew was famous for his gigantic-" "Kylar!" Elene interrupted, motioning toward Uly. "His gigantic what?" Uly asked. "Now you did it." Elene said, "His gigantic what, Kyler?" "Feet. And you know what they say about big feet." He winked lasciviously at Elene. "What?" Uly asked. "Big Shoes," Kylar said.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

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.