“Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should’ve been trained.But she wasn’t. She was regrettably human.”

“People fail to realize that horror isn’t just monsters and death. Sometimes, it’s learning to accept the darkness of human nature.”

“I don't want to be a kitten anymore. Give me my honorary claws so I can become a lion.”

“That’s what he is—a snake, a dangerous predator—and here I am, a mouse…waiting to be devoured.Luna Ketz, Rise Above Twilight”

“There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.”

“The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometimes with fall between them.”

“It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.”

“Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.”

“There had been trials involving water, a time when witches were persecuted, bound, and tossed into the largest nearby body of water to see if they would sink or swim.”

“One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.”

“The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.”