“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”

“She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?""Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.”

“Hes fine. Every time any of us are late you imagine were dead. You are no longer allowed to imagine anyone is dead.Im not imagining hes dead, I whisper, but Im totally imagining him bleeding to dea...”

“So theres this annual dance in a couple of weeks.The Winter Ball, I interrupt. There have been signs up everywhere.You want to go?I think about it for a half second. Will you dress up?He nods.I mov...”

“Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. Its a great job, dont get me wrong. Its the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .Get h...”

“Well fight them. We took down my dad. Weve taken down so many since then. Well take down these jokesters too.I will never let anything happen to you, Nick growls into my hair. I will die before you...”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“In his stupor, the forest had begun to change. The sounds were confusing, his eyes blurring in his exhaustion. He tugged another branch out of the way, gasping as a jagged twig poked through the pa...”

“Could be. Im a pretty dangerous dude when Im cornered.Yeah, said the voice from under the table, you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

“Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.”

“Now you bitches can stand here quaking in your boots about what your women might do to you. Im going to get my woman.”