#2018book

“ Would my mother forget why I hadn't come home yet, or forget me, forget she had ever had a daughter, who made too much money and bragged of it and so got herself stolen away by a king?”

“You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”

“We might be Paper Girls, easily torn and written upon. The very title we’ve given suggests that we are blank, waiting to be filled. But what the Demon King and his court do not undertand is that paper is flammable. ”

“I cannot decide if you are a toxin or a tonic, only that you plague my thoughts and fill my veins.”

“Dear Dad. Life in Montana is pretty interesting. Killed a man today - it was justified, really. But just in case, you should talk to your buddies and see if there's a good criminal attoney in Missoula or Kalispell who wouldn't mind representing a werewolf.”

“When Alice was born, her eyes were black from end to end, and the midwife didn't stay long enough to wash her.”

“And the castle,” Felix said quietly. 

“I missed the way your mind works. How you’re willing to make the difficult decisions few people are willing to face, the ones that cost a piece of your soul. How you suffer no hesitation acting on those decisions, despite their price, and each time you hit breaking point, you come up with a new way to put yourself back together again. How you never stop caring, no matter how badly the world treats you, and bloody hell, this world has treated you abominably. How, despite the war you eternally wage between your brain and your heart, you possess the finest of both intellect and emotion I’ve ever seen. You dazzle me, Dani O’Malley. You bloody fucking dazzle me.”