Someone ought to write a novel about me.

However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don’t punish me for saying it. I think you know you’re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don’t want to run errands for someone cruel.

Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.