I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thinking. I feel like a junkie, sick for my next fix and not sure when it will come.

What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?

There are dog people and cat people.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

It is my belief that books are living things.