My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.