It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.