“I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in my brain says.”

“This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”

“I finally find a girl I could really be with, maybe the only girl in the world, and I had what? Two months with her? It's not enough. After everything she went through - everything I went through - we deserve more than that. Or maybe we don't. Anyway, life doesn't work like that. It doesn't care about fair and unfair.”

“Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.”

“I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.”

“In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.”

“What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.”

“I want to get some sleep, so if there's something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?”

“I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.”

“They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.”

“The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?”