April Genevieve Tucholke

“All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.”

“Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.”

“Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.”

“Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.”

“When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you.”

“The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was the sound an orphan governess hears in a book,before a mad woman sets the bed curtains on fire.”

“All the strangest things are true.”

“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”

“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.”

“It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.”