For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

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