In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

Love takes your choices away.