My captors had been careful to avoid physical contact these past three days.

Sometimes it’s not about being stronger. It’s about being smarter.

I know exactly what you are... and I think it’s magnificent.

In that moment, he truly did look like the Unseelie King. Like a dark fairy tale. Like a terrible dream.

God, give me patience or an untraceable handgun, I thought.

I know exactly what you are... and I think it's magnificent.

Like the nightmares that came at night, we were meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure our victims in. Then, when it was too late to draw back, we struck.

A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.

I glared at Collith and wondered if God had created his angels beautiful for practical reasons, rather than aesthetic ones. A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.