"You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you have a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power" (Page 20).

"There are things going on at this school - just because things seem normal doesn't mean they are. Things are rarely what they seem" (Page 69).

"I realized I'd been given an opportunity to become part of a new kind of family; an opportunity to trust someone, to take a chance on someone. My parents may have been four thousand miles away, but I'd gained a new best friend. And that was something. That was the kind of thing you held on to" (Page 113).

"The opportunity to pretend to be an It Girl for a little while, in a world with much simpler rules, where what you wore meant more than how many Reapers you thwarted, how much firespell...