“There are few things more pleasurable than a cracking version of Hansel and Gretel and a good scab.”

“I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!”

“Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.”

“The truth is I’m a chicken shit coward who’s afraid of a girl like you. When I’m with you, I want things I never thought I’d be able to have, or deserved, and that scares me a little. I’m just a regular guy who works in a bar and you’re this beautiful person who shines brighter than the stars.I think I just made up some cheesy poetry so I’ll stop while I’m ahead.If you feel like talking, give me a call. ~DSophie sat down on the floor and, through blurry eyes, reread the note so many times she had it memorized. She was going to do more than give him a call.”

“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”

“You think I'm a part of the Magicus Mundi?""You are telling me you're not? That being the new Lilith means nothing? That it's a human thing?""It's the quintessential human thing," Sylvie said. "The ability to say fuck you.”

“On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawingrooms into the manifold horrors of the First World War.”