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“This is the kind of dream you don't wake up from, Henry.”
― Katie Alender, Famous Last Words

“I felt the back of my neck prickle. I was being watched. I knew this even before I slowly turned around, knew it like I knew I had ten fingers and ten toes.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Shadow Society

“I don’t know what heaven smells like, but if it doesn’t smell like freshly baked cookies, I will be really disappointed.”
― Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits

“You can love someone as many ways as water falls from the sky. Sometimes it falls with thunder and lightning; other times it falls silently. Sometimes it falls as cool snow, and other times hard balls of ice beat down. If you want the water, you don't get to choose how it falls.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“He did look at me, and it made my heart jump. 'No, you have become yourself. You... you are as captivating as the flame that dances in a fire. And just as destructive.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“You know I’d follow you anywhere. Though I fear we’ll both end up damned.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“There was still beauty in the world, still innocence.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Your father science isn’t the problem. Because of it Edward exists, and he has just as much humanity in him as any of us. You've had it all wrong. It's just like what you said at the flower shop: 'It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn’t do good or ill by itself – it’s the intention behind it. And your father‘s intention to create Edward was good.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“What you hate is what you are. An animal, just like me. Don’t pretend like you’ve never imagined it—the thrill of the hunt. No chaperones, no silk stockings, nothing holding you back. Tearing through the city like we were back on that island, feeling your blood boil, your pulse race. You’re jealous of my freedom. You said it yourself once.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Juliet, this is my father. You have the luxury of knowing yours was insane. I can’t sleep until I find out what the devil mine is up to.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Now I understand why you’re friends. I thought you were the most impossible woman in the world, but now I see there are two of you.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“Children who had no family were the ones who cherished the idea of family the most.”
― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity

“My heart wrench a little. They were in my room but I felt like the intruder.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“The nail drove deeper, as if [he] was trying to drive it into my very heart.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“You look beautiful. Like one of the angels Milton wrote about.’
‘A fallen one,maybe,’ I said.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Juliet...you looked even more beautiful when I thought I was dying.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“You are my new hero. Seriously, I might actually be in love with you now. Would it be awkward if we made out?”
― Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits

“I wonder what it would be like to have someone who knew me so well, someone who would look right into my soul, someone who very touch sent all other thoughts from my mind. I tried to imagine someone who hungered for the same things I did and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, and not because it fulfilled a loveless agreement on paper.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“The hope on his face feels like a different kind of wound.
I don't know if I can trust him, but I do know he won't hurt me.
And I'm starting to think he might kill for me.
That's scarier.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions