“ Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school...”

“I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people Id loved the most in the world, the ones Id always told all my secrets to, the ones Id wanted to hide with far away fro...”

“But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the destiny my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.”

“You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.”No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not...”

“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”