Melissa Petreshock · 224 pages
Rating: (315 votes)
“I’d say Hades will convert the Underworld into an ice skating rink before the king has a personality makeover.”
“Cait’s lips are on mine, hard, insistent, hands fisting my hair, and she’s taking control, grinding her body to mine, finding ways to pleasure herself with my body. I am a willing slave to her desires, no intention of fighting her punishment for my resistance in accepting her love.”
“Wealth means nothing if you believe such a life affords you the right to pity, Caitie. It affords us great responsibility.”
“Pretty packaging doesn’t make a bad gift any better.”
“Bunny rabbits may not look like New York City sewer rats, but they’re still rodents.”
“There are times, Cait, we must do what we do not like. Complaints are for the weak-willed. True strength prevails regardless the situation.”
“Ain’t it queer that she’d take to stones, bugs, and butterflies, and save them. Now they are going to bring her the very thing she wants the worst. Lord, but this is a funny world when you get to studying! Looks like things didn’t all come by accident. Looks as if there was a plan back of it, and somebody driving that knows the road, and how to handle the lines. Anyhow, Elnora’s in the wagon, and when I get out in the night and the dark closes around me, and I see the stars, I don’t feel so cheap.”
“Did you have fun? How many boys did you make out with?” She asks. “Seventy. At least.” “How many shots did you take?” “Fourteen. I let go of the wheel halfway home and Jesus drove me the rest of the way.”
“You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto
her lips. “I hope you never forget that.”
“I’ll never forget,” she whispers back.. “But if I ever do, for
whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me.”
...“Always.”
“You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.”
“Do the gods sleep well at night? I think maybe they do.”
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