I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

You're not the only one falling

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.