By you, I am forever undone.

I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

Well, even if the serpent bites off your head,” says Tatterfell, “the rest of you will still look good.”“That’s the spirit,” I tell her.

Too many for my eyes to drink them all in, yet I cannot look away.- Jude Duarte

You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?- Jude Duarte

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?One piece at a time.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.

She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness

I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.

It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.

Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.- Cardan Greenbriar

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I'm not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

Do not touch her. She's my wife, the rightful High Queen of Elfame. And most definitely not in exile.

Do not touch her. She's my wife, the rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.

Some people are ridiculous, especially when it comes to love.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

There are many things I don't know, but I know a great deal about imprisonment.