Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a so….

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can….

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?.

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I thought I grew out of it.” Philip p….

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts..

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get w….

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing..

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of succes….

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back..

I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those h….

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with h….

Ruthless. That’s my girl..

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to b….

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that..

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty..

Don't be drinking the Haterade..

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil,….

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain..

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy,….

Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terr….

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series..