People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

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.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.