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

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

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

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3