Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.

I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What they put in it.

It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.

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.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?