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?

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

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

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 story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me