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21 " My hands twitch and wiggle.Jo sees them, shakes her head and mouths, “Sit on your hands.”She can’t be serious. As if my butt would stop my hands even if it could. Does she not realize it’s in league with the rest of me? "
― Eliza Crewe , Crushed (Soul Eaters, #2)
22 " I hear Jo in my head trying to douse the fire in my heart. “Be good, Meda.” Good, good, good, good, good. The word plays in a loop until it means nothing. I’ve been good and they refuse to feed me. I’ve been good and they won’t train me. I’ve been good and they changed the locks. I’ve been good and they want to send me away. "
23 " She regards me the same way I would a cat – like I’m distasteful, occasionally entertaining, and not to be trusted not to pee on the rug.Which is completely unfair – I only thought about it once. "
24 " There’s this guy I came across, not far from here. I thought we could, you know,” he makes a short slashing motion across his neck. “He seems like the kinda guy you’d go for. In a homicidal way, I mean.” “You arranged a murder?” Awww, that’s so sweet. "
25 " And, lastly, there’s a small pack of wide-eyed innocents in awe of my Beacon-ness who follow me around expecting me to perform a miracle any minute. Sometimes I screw up my face like I’m trying. Or constipated. "
26 " And since when does Hell have royalty? I thought they were all bureaucrats.” “Oh, sweetie,” he says, patronizing. “That’s cute.” “What’s cute?” “That you think celebrity children of powerful people aren’t royalty.” “Are you accusing me of being a Hilton?” I sputter. “Or a, a–” my head might explode, “Kardashian?” “The Hellish equivalent. "
27 " He either had a great deal of faith in my ability to escape (fair enough, I do rock), or he’s full of shit – sadly, that’s the more likely option. "
28 " While I’m all delighted joy, she’s angry revenge, which is pretty adorable on a six year-old, even a dead one – like a wet kitten. "
29 " They studied the phenomenon at Harvard.” “They studied soul-stealing at Harvard?” “What else do you think they do in business school? In any case, it’s called the Ikea effect.” “As in furniture? "
30 " Ah well, no rest for the wicked and all that. I’ll just have to kill him myself. "
31 " And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun. "
32 " Superhero Meda establishing gender-equality one almost-kiss at a time! "
33 " What a foolish thing, the human heart, being both fragile and reckless. No wonder we spend such an inordinate amount of time in pain. "
34 " What do you say to your best friend when you stand at the gates of the gates of hell? Nothing. If it’s your best friend, she already knows. "
35 " But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash. "
36 " Colton suspects we’re not just children, that we are, in fact, the terrifying things that go bump in the night. But, no, that’s wrong. Not things that bump. Bumps are clumsy and inelegant. They are sounds made by creatures not at home in the darkness. I don’t bump. I crunch in the night. I crack; I splatter; I splash. But I never, ever bump. "
37 " You don't have to be a doormat to be good. Even good people are allowed self-defense. "
38 " You mother-f–” “Yes, actually, I am. All part of the job. "
39 " I remember jeering when Chi announced to Jo, in the midst of demon-fighting hell, that he’d loved her all his life. But now I suddenly get it. When your life is shortened to mere minutes, it has a way of focusing your priorities. You’re in the burning house of your life – what’s that one item you’re going to grab?For me, it’s Armand’s hand. "
40 " You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature. "