Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

by Holly Black

She couldn’t understand that the age of guerilla engineering was at a close, that being a motherfucking genius wasn’t enough. You needed to be a rich motherfucking genius.

You think that it’s enough to want things. You think that if you just want and want then you’re just going to magically get them.”

“I’m here because you are kind and lovely and terribly, terribly brave,” he said, voice pitched low. “And because I want to be.”