Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.

El verdadero poder no se concede, y tampoco se puede arrebatar

La ambición es muy curiosa: puedes contraerla como si fuera una fiebre, pero no es tan fácil desprenderte de ella

Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.

It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.After all, hell is supposed to be hot.