18 quotes found
“Mutually assured destruction.”
“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”
“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.”
“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk."They're for you.""You want me to look homeless,...”
“The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms,...”
“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”
“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure...”
“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
“I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what...”
“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”
