Holly Black, Tithe

"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."

"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."

"I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion."

"Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye"

"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back."

"Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way."