The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

The key holds the truth

Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.