16 Quotes by Rachael Arsenault

Shawna, play nice.”“Honesty is nice.

Luna hated her split tongue. It gave her a slight lisp. Bluebell just thought it was cute.

I remembered the last time Emily and I had tried looking ourselves up as a joke. Her top result had been some sort of beauty blogger on YouTube and mine had been a porn star. We had laughed ourselves silly over it. Now, when I looked up my name, the first page of results was actually all me.

I missed all the people and places I didn’t know if I would ever see again – my grandparents and their cute little house at Basin Head, where we used to visit the beach everyday and I would run barefoot over the singing sands and swim in the impossibly enormous ocean.

I don’t like it. I would prefer no one else became tied up in this. But some things can’t be helped. War is harsh.”“We’re not at war.”“Yet.

Stupid. This was all so stupid. We had already broken up. I’d done all my crying. I’d vented to Emily and my mom – remapped my future into a life that didn’t include him. So why did I feel as raw and vulnerable as I had the moment he broke up with me?

You should have started with the fire,” Masika said dryly. “I thought it might scare her.”Masika raised her eyebrows. “More than cutting yourself?

I am thinking rationally! What’s not rational about saying you’re crazy and magic isn’t real?

During the Stone Age––”“Age of Magic,” Masika snapped. “It was less than 3000 years ago, not 8000 years ago.”Despite everything, Farida cracked a little smile. “The Age of Magic is the Age of Magic Stones, so it’s the Stone Age.