“Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.”

“Thank you, I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.You want to thank me, Barrow? she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. Then keep your word. And let t...”

“In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal wa...”

“Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this,”

“As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.”

“What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home ...”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a lit...”