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.

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.

Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare. "The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.