You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

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.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.