It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

I’m not really the sacrificing type.

I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.

You don’t mind when he stares at you.” Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn’t stare,” I said. “He looks.