"For all his short life the boy has been aware of his sister’s love for all things strange or extraordinary, like unus…"

"I want to take you to a place where it is midnight every day and black irises glisten under a bleeding moon."

"Personally, I don't think about what people have for breakfast. I have better things to do with my thoughts."

"She screams. And her scream is heard from one end of the universe to the other. The words, 'They will suffer,' are wr…"

"They will pay dearly for this. They will pay with blood, with fear, and with many lives."

"Lorian recalls how Dartemis was never an 'innocent child', but the youngest and most powerful of the three siblings. …"

"So they decided to play Ping-Pong with the universe?"

"The heart is a strange thing. It's also a significant weakness."

"But trust is what the Guard is all about. Faith in what doesn't always make sense."

"Maybe evil never dies, and once in your blood, stays there for ever, lying dormant until something comes along to tri…"