I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.

There are dog people and cat people.

I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

Mutually assured destruction.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.