"I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right."
- Cynthia Hand
"You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I’ll hear you…"
"As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways.""My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with.""It's not so bad," Mom says. "..."
"And,” Kay adds as her final touch, “Christian Prescott is my boyfriend.”I dislike her already."
"As a serf, poor Christian has already been killed several times in our class. Aside from dying of the Black Plague on the first day, he’s starved to death, had his hands cut off for stealing a loaf of..."
"Once again, my hero. And here I’m supposed to be the one saving him."
"How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from."
- Jonathan Friesen
"My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say"
"The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities."
"No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the pa..."