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“Stop seeing what you want to see, Merik Nihar, and start seeing what's really here!”
― Susan Dennard, Windwitch

“Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Were you ever in love, Clarendel? speak the truth. I am just seized with a passionate desire to know.â€�

‘Why . . . yes.. � answered he, pulling his lips with his fingers, ‘I think–I rather think. . . . I was once.�

‘O tell! tell! tell!�

‘Nay, I am not very positive. One hears it is to happen; and one is put upon thinking of it, while so very young, that one soon takes it for granted. Define it a little, and I can answer you more accurately. Pray, is it any thing beyond being very fond, and very silly, with a little touch of melancholy?”
― Fanny Burney, Camilla

“Said the wolf pretending to be a sheep.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“You saw me but didn't say hello? I'm wounded, Miss Antonius.'

Synton's voice was like a deep rumble of thunder in her ear as he finally dropped his hands but didn't step back.

'Perhaps I was getting the lay of the land. A lady must know where it's safe to step,' she quipped.

'Yet you're stepping all over my ego.'

'Forgive me, my lord. I had no idea you'd be so easily damaged.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Apologies for any insult this causes,' she said without peering out from around her easel, 'but I am not in the market for a husband, my lord. Please just go.'

A beat of silence passed. With any luck, Vexley would be insulted by the bite in her tone and would turn right back around and leave for some faraway city at the edge of the world.

'Well, that's quite a relief considering I'm in want of a painting, not a wife.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“She's been wrong. He was no jaguar, he was a wolf.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“You ought to know, if I had taken a lover, I would have needed hours, Miss Antonius.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“He was not good, and he was not mortal.

The sooner she realised that, the better it would be for her. If Camilla was sunshine, he was the darkest of nights. And if she wasn't careful, his shadows would snuff out her light. If only for the fleeting chance to possess her warmth before destroying it.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“You cannot murder him,' Camilla said, sounding- of all things- partly aghast and mildly frustrated.

He didn't slow his pace. 'I assure you, I can.'

'Allow me to rephrase. You will not murder him?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I'm not Justin Silverstone's biggest fan, but he's not a bad guy. Despite the mistakes he made in the past, he recently helped us destroy Anima from inside out. He's proven himself. And yet, the moment he put his arm around Camilla and turned on his megawatt smile, Ive wanted to open him up from navel to nose, just to play Operation. Same way I reacted when the waiter touched her.
I think I'm on my period.”
― Gena Showalter, A Mad Zombie Party

“Paint speckled her skin like a colourful constellation of freckles.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen