“She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.”

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”

“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

“She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.”

“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be.”