I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.