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“You’re going to be okay.” Alex managed a smile. “Because I seem like a good kid?” The teacher looked surprised. “No, kiddo. Because you’re a killer.”
“Galaxy Stern,” Darlington said, his eyes flashing gold, “I have been crying out to you from the start.”
“When faced with death, better to dance than to lie down for it.”
Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?
She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.
“I’m bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
“But I like this life better.” “Better than what?” “Better than what I was living before. Better than a world without magic. I think I’ve been waiting my whole life for the moment someone would see something in me that wasn’t ordinary.” “We all are.” Alex couldn’t keep the bitterness from her voice. “That’s how they get you.”
“It changed you too, Stern. You may not care about good and evil, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You stole a man out of hell. You beat a demon at his own game. You’d better think about what that means.” “And what’s that?” “The devil knows your name now, Galaxy Stern.”
