“We talk and tease and bargain with the main dish. Maniacal laughter echoes in the marble halls, sweet to my ears.Theres movement at the banquet halls entrance. A child with my eyes tumbles inall wi...”

“What went on between you and my mom? Did you seduce all the Liddell women? Did you tell them the same pretty words you told me? I curl my legs beneath my dress, feeling small and vulnerable for ev...”

“Shh." I squeeze his hand. His palm feels clammy. "We have to keep it down, okay? We don't want my dad coming in."He grits his teeth against more shivers. "Always knew I'd end up in your bed . . . a...”

“Before I can even ask what he means, he skims his licorice-scented lips across my foreheadjust shy of touchinghis warm breath dragging across my left eye patch, then down a cheek, toward my mouth. ...”

“I grin, and he beams with ”

“A muffled curse comes from the doorway. I jerk my head to find Jeb there, blood drained from his face. His gaze is fierce yet dejected, a deep and gut-twisting wound I havent seen since his dad was...”

“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.”

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame.”

“Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.”

“The Holy One is a flame.”