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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here."
"I live here.

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them.

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.

Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

Mutually assured destruction.

The human soul is the opposite of chaos, of nothingness. The soul is everything.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

Follow that lizard!

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters.

The book turned out to be one she'd read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team.

Everything's better when you say it in Latin.

He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful

Cruddy Mouthbreather

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Call wasn't sure what it meant that he'd gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn't manage to impress him.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

They took lots of things they had no right to.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.

I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.

I have no idea what to say to him. "The Latin Club is totally evil," I blurt.
"The Latin Club?"
I can understand why he's confused.

We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.

The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Can't get away from your own self.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Can you save yourself?

water wants to flow,

You have carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you have carried it long before that.

I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again,

His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.

That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.

Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.

Every plan is a house of cards.

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.

They say that nameless things change constantly - that names fix them in place like pins.

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash.

I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."...
"Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?

Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out.

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

Don't forget to smolder!

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.

Call's stomach felt as if it wanted to curl up inside him like a kicked puppy.

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it.

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.

The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job.

He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries.

By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms.

She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.

The light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon.

Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye.

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.

Death's favorites don't die.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.

Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. Not everybody wakes up right after.

That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.

Call went through much of the next day in a daze.