“Like lets hear some big freaking initiation details! How'd it go?" Z asks. "Are you feeling more womanly? Or more witchy?""Well, Sascha would probably say I'm feeling more bitchy than usual, but..." Margo pauses, as all of our eyes go wide.I think we're amazed Margo is a little more self-aware than we might give her credit for.”

“Hey, what are we going to get Margo for her birthday?" I ask."I know what to get her.""What?"Dani looks around, and then whispers in my ear. "A spell to remove the stick from her ass.”

“A good hunter keeps her distance from non-coven people," she says with a touch of ice in her voice - doing a dead-on imitation of Mrs. Keyes."A good hunter keeps herself chaste," Z adds."A good hunter will explode from lack of contact with the opposite sex," Sascha deadpans.Margo shakes her head in disgust. "A good hunter will cut the crap and do what she's suppose to do.”

“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.”

“I thought for once that acting decent ought to be rewarded. That's why I let you go, and that's why I didn't bring you back to the King.""If it's so horrible there,why don't you stay with us?" I asked without thinking."No." He shook his head and lowered his eyes. "Tempting though the offer may be, your people wouldn't allow it, and my people...well,let's just say they wouldn't react well if I didn't come home. And wether I like or not, it is my home.""I know that feeling all too well." I sighed. Though Forening was starting to feel more like home, I wasn't sure that it ever would completely."See?I told you,Princess." Loki's smile returned more easily. "You and I aren't all that different.""You say that like it means something.""Doesn't it?""No,not really. You're leaving today, going home to my enemies." I let out a deep breath, feeling an ache inside my chest. "If I'm lucky,I'll never see you again. Because if I do,that means we're at war,and I'd have to hurt you.""Oh,Wendy,that's perhaps the saddest thing I've ever heard," Loki said, and he looked like he meant it. "But life doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. Don't you ever see the silver lining?""Not today." I shook my head. I heard garrett summon me from down the hall, which meant that lunch was over and the meetings were about to start up. "I have to get back.I'll see you when we make the exchange with the Vittra Queen.""Good luck." Loki nodded.I turned to walk away, and I hadn't made it very far when I heard Loki calling after me."Wendy!" Loki leaned out into the hall, so far it made him grimace with pain. "If you're right and the next time we see each other is when our kingdoms are at war, you and I never will be. I'll never fight you.That I can promise you.”

“A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.”

“You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.”