Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.