I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.

But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" Pretty much.

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

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

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.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.