"Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten."
- Kami Garcia
"Hey Rid?"She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could..."Yeah, Shrinky Dink?""You're not..."
"You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different."
"It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else..."
"I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of..."
"Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either."
"Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic."