That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested