Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.