She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.

Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.