She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.