“Dont tell me youre afraid of heights, she said, shimmying along the edge.Not heights, he murmured. Just falling.”

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”

“She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.”

“I am Sunai, he said. I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”

“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”

“Listen to me, he said, pulling off his coat. You need to stay awake.She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. Whats so funny?Youre a really ...”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”

“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? Theres this idea that monsters dont have reflections in a mirror. And what Ive always thought isnt that monsters d...”