“There should be a weather app for people with social anxiety, like "Today life will be partly crowdy with a 70 percent chance of having to deal with people." - from "The Mixed-Up Files of Tilly Adams's Journal”
Source: Lost and Found Sisters
“He ran his eyes carefully over her face. ‘Do you trust me, love?’
Well, that was a loaded question if she’d ever heard one. He had saved her life, yes, but something about him warned her to stay on her guard. After considering the situation, she shook her head. ‘I’m grateful you saved me and everything, but no, sorry, I don’t trust you.’
Griffin’s eyes flashed, the corner of his mouth turning up with amusement. ‘Smart girl.’
And then all Sachi could feel was cold, icy fire as Griffin’s sword tore through her chest, burying itself in her heart.”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“His mouth curled into a derisive smirk. ‘You overestimate your value to me. In the grand scheme of things, love, you are nothing more than a chess piece. The more convenient option, yes, but not the only one open to me.”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“What is it with you people? Why are you all so stabby and kidnappy?”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“How often we have to thank the sense of beauty of some former country worker for sparing a sapling when cutting a hedge or taking a slip of some doomed tree and setting it 'quick i' the earth' to bloom for those who have come after.”
Source: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
“Julian looked at her sharply, his grey eyes like steel knives cutting through to the bone. ‘Do you think I do not know what it is to mourn a loved one? Do you think in a hundred and fifty years I’ve not lost anybody close to me?”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“I haven’t asked you to trust me,’ he said. ‘In fact, I would advise you against it. The moment you place your trust in someone is the moment you become vulnerable to that person.”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“You don't look pleased to see me, love? And here i thought we had such a lovely evening the other night.'
Sachi rolled her eyes. 'You mean after you killed me?'
'Yes. After that.”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“'Are you capable of constructing sentences without the use of sarcasm?
Occasionally”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“some chess pieces are quite valuable”
Source: Out of the Shadows