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

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A