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21 " No one’s there,” I whisper, and no sooner have the words left my lips than someone knocks. I startle violently enough that I knock over a candle. The silk rug catches almost instantly, yellow fire eating a quick path across the antique pattern. I’m still stamping out sparks when someone says, “What are you doing?”I look up. Alex’s replacement stands in my doorway. And although it’s past three in the morning, she’s dressed as if she’s about to walk into a law school interview. She’s even wearing collar studs. “Summoning the devil. What does it look like? "
― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance
22 " One of the girl’s brow lifts. I’ve never been able to do that. Even after ages staring at myself in the mirror, I’ve only ever been able to muster a constipated sort of grimace. "
23 " I spent nearly a year away from this place in my own brand of seclusion, but as soon as I come back, there are ghosts at my heels and stories of dead witches on everyone’s tongues. "
24 " I can barely stand to exist in this place anymore. "
25 " Just so,” Ellis interjects. “As Astell said herself: It were well if we could look into the very Soul of the beloved Person, to discover what resemblance it bears to our own. "
26 " Don’t you ever wish you could go back?” Ellis murmurs, gaze turned up toward the chandeliers; their light glitters off of the lenses of her glasses. My gaze snaps away from the kettle, back to her. “To some other time,” she says, “when things were a little wilder. When the rules were a little less clear. "
27 " I want to argue that plenty of people manage to believe in ghosts and witches without others questioning their sanity. "
28 " I wouldn’t want to get burned at the stake as a witch.”“Oh, but can you blame them? You area witch. I don’t doubt you would have poisoned the village crops, salted their fields, and led their daughters into temptation.”“Just their daughters? "
29 " Oh, but can you blame them? You are a witch. I don’t doubt you would have poisoned the village crops, salted their fields, and led their daughters into temptation.”“Just their daughters? "
30 " For once, the forest is empty of ghosts, the sky is clear and glittering. Nothing evil can touch us like this. We’re dryads cavorting in autumn, wood spirits breathing out starlight. "
31 " I envy her. No one in my family cares about literature at all. My mother views my love of reading with the same vague bafflement with which she viewed my former interest in running— a hobby one might reference in polite conversation, but ultimately unnecessary. "
32 " I don’t know how much there is to say. I’m not a very interesting person, I’m afraid. "
33 " I don’t know how to argue with Ellis about this. It’s like trying to convince someone the grass is green when they insist that anyone could clearly see the grass is blue. "
34 " Dr. Ortega once described psychotic depression as being like a gun: my genetics loaded the chamber with bullets, my mother passed the weapon into my hand, but Alex's death pulled the trigger. "
35 " That story Noam wove last night about their future had sunk deep into his bones, and he couldn’t excise it. Dara wanted that. For the first time in years, Dara wanted to live.The Electric Heir "
― Victoria Lee , The Electric Heir (Feverwake, #2)
36 " Dara never imagined losing hope would feel so . . . liberating. "
37 " But I want to find a loose thread on the collar of her shirt and tug. I want to unravel her. "
38 " Don't you ever," Dara said, his voice low and very, very even, "touch me again. "
39 " You’re obsessed with magic because you can’t stand to live with yourself otherwise. "
40 " My world reduces to sensation. The lights are too bright, sounds overloud. People speak to me, and although I hear them and respond, two minutes later I can’t remember what they said or what it meant. "