Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

You didn’t have to go to the fireworks with him. Or – or let him fondle you.””Fondle?” Raisa raised her eyebrows, “When did I mention fondling?

Which is a sad thing when you’re only seventeen.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn’t much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

I can’t make you, Rebecca, but you’ll probably feel better if you eat.

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.”Don’t you die. don’t you dare. I forbid it.” As if Han Alister...

All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie...

Just tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll let the matter drop.””What?””What I said. Just say, ‘Rai, I don’t love you and I never will’. It’s that simple.””Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.””Say it!

If he even survives.” She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth.”It’s that bad?”Raisa nodded. “He looked…he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn’t know if he’ll…She’s worried about him....

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Commander! Sir! Wake up!”Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he’d respond so he could go back to sleep – until he remembered that he was the commander.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don’t parent, kids grow up fast.

Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah’s case,...

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

Fitch is on his way. He’s coming after he blows up some wizards.

Imagine what it’s like to be (untouchable)Better not take a chance on me (untouchable)I’m the bad boy your mama told you aboutI’m dangerous, without a doubtEven coming off a ten-year droughtUntouchableI’m the rose with hidden...

Come on! We’ve had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that’s my motto. I’m counting on bieng faster than them.

So here’s the truth – I love you. I love everything about you – the way you stick up for people even when it costs you. The way you keep trying to do the right...

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don’t think so much.

I continueto believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to thosewho work very hard

For Hanalea the Warrior!

It’s not about what people think. It’s about who you are.

N’exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed.

Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he...

Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.

It’s true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, “Don’t you believe in second chances?”The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. “Sonny Lee always said, ‘Fool me once,...

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

History,’ Mari muttered, as if she’d overheard his thoughts. ‘Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?’ ‘So hopefully we get smarter and don’t make the same mistakes again.

His name was Theo.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.

Just remember who you are… The world will try to change you into someone else. Don’t let them. That’s the best advice anyone can give you.

Whoa, Rebecca,” Talia said smiling even wider, “Walking on the wild side, are we?”Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. “He – uh – I’m tutoring him.””She is,” Han said solemnly. “She’s very...

Can you see why I can’t stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world.”Sometimes people lie for good reasons,” Jonah said....

His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.