“By the way, can you simplify 7x-2(4x-6)?I knew she could. She was already in Trig.What does that have to do with anything?Nothing. But I'm failing this quiz.She sighed.A Caster girlfriend had some perks.”

“I was losing her, she wouldn’t listen to me, and I was about to fail my third quiz of the semester. Great.By the way, can you simplify 7x – 2(4x – 6)?I knew she could. She was already in Trig.What does that have to do with anything?Nothing. But I’m failing this quiz.She sighed.A Caster girlfriend had some perks.”

“How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be?~Razo”

“The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.”

“I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.”

“That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.”