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.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.

As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying