... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.