There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.

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

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.