It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.