We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

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

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.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.