“There's a reason my only friends are written words”

“Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.”

“Cal's eyes flicker, out to the trees. But he's not looking at the leaves. His gaze is in the past, to something more painful. "She killed my true mother as well. And she'll kill all of us if we let...”

“But our mercy has a cost, and it might be our lives.”

“And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.”

“Don't lie to a liar,”

“Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.”

“Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.”

“Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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...”