Quotes from Sarah Beth Durst

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

To you," he said, "I surrender my heart and soul." She rolled her eyes. "Very romantic, considering you have neither.

You're a teenage boy. I have boobs. What part of the equation is missing?

Do you believe in vampires? Not the sparkly variety.

I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said. 'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.

You'll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.

Imagine that it's sugar, Korbyn said. 'You're riding across candy.' Salt can never be sugar, Fennik said. We should talk about the definition of the word 'imagine'.

That's brilliant. I thought so. But I'm glad you agree. It will make this journey much more pleasant if you are impressed with my brilliance.

I do not want leaving me to be easy.

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.

Impressive vocabulary, Korbyn said. I feel as though I should take notes. I think she's making them up, Liyana said. Half of them are not anatomically possible.

Look you don't know I'm your soul mate, Lily said. You barely know me at all. I have terrible habits. I swallow toothpaste. My socks don't always match. I'm not good at small talk. I'm just about the most unpopular kid in class, a close third behind the guy who doesn't shower and the girl who's a compulsive liar. Besides, it's not like Jake and me... He was just being nice. You are my soul mate, even if you don't know it yet, Tye said

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire. And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

I can wait beyond never.

Do you know hot to drive? he asked. Sure, she said. This one is the gas.

Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they're made. It's not time to regret them; it's time to live with the consequences.

Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.

I can't be bound by a past self I don't remember.

Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.

Bayla, is this how you'd kill me? she asked out loud. There are easier ways. You could send another snake. I am sorry I ate the first one. Hearing her own voice made her feel braver. He was delicious, though

Fennik growled. You mock me. Korbyn's face was innocent, like Jidali's after he sneaked a cookie from Aunt Sabisa. I would never mock such an illustrious personage, Korbyn said.

Good luck. Be safe. And if you can't be safe... be yourself.

She had a hundred reasons: because Bear had carved a statue of her in the center of the topiary garden, because she could always make him laugh, because he'd let her return to the station, because he won at chess and lost at hockey, because he ran as fast as he could to polar bear births, because he had seal breath even as a human, because his hands were soft, because he was her Bear. Because i want my husband back, Cassie said.