When I look into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine.

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.

I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.