How we cite our quotes: (Story.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
But Kizzy was ripe for goblins, and if anything got her, it would probably be them. Already one had tracked the perfume of her longing past the surly billy goat to peer in her bedroom window. Already it was studying her every move and perfecting its disguise. (1.1.59)
Goblins are sneaky little creatures. They're good at observing Kizzy and learning exactly what she's looking for in her life—and then dressing themselves up to meet all of her desires.
Quote #2
Kizzy knew but she willfully unknew it, and the plangent voices of the dead were lost to the drum of her hot blood and the tingle of her ready lips. She wanted to taste and be tasted. (1.3.73)
The most effective lies are the ones that we tell ourselves. That's certainly the case with Kizzy, who knows on some level that Jack Husk is totally a goblin, but then tells herself this is not the case.
Quote #3
Estella hissed, "Vasudev, this cannot stand. It is all out of proportion!"
"Proportion? But what has proportion to do with anything? That's the beauty of spices little curses such as these, Estella. You never know how they might play out. Don't get high and mighty now. You knew the rules!" (2.11.5-6)
Even though she agreed to carry out the curse, Estella still feels wronged by Vasudev. After all, she thought that saving the children in the earthquake was the better deal—but now Anamique's voice has taken the lives of over sixty victims. Yikes.
Quote #4
"Not quite yet," Estella said, producing a flask from within the folds of her shawl and holding it out to Anamique. "Child, quickly, drink this," she said.
Vasudev gasped. "No! You can't!" he sputtered. (2.11.39-40)
Hanging out around Vasudev for so many years has taught Estella a thing or two about keeping a card up her sleeve. She manages to save all of Anamique's victims by sacrificing her own life, much to Vasudev's dismay.
Quote #5
Then he saw the braids hanging from the chandelier and knew that they'd fled. He felt an instant flood of fury at Mab's trickery, and a twinge of panic to think of them getting away, but those feelings were quickly drowned out by the visceral thrill that came over him—despite everything he wanted to be, and all he tried to un-be—at the thought of a hunt. (3.2.21)
The Druj are immortal demons and trained hunters, but Mab still has some experience with evading them. Even though she's scared to death, Mab manages to use her trickery and wiles to escape. Well, at least for a while…
Quote #6
They might fright a young girl or boy by following them home, but usually in animal cithra they don't do much more than that.
When they come for mischief, they come as humans. (3.3.6-7)
The problem with living forever is that life gets boring. Because the Druj run out of things to do, they set their sights on humans… and how they can mess with those poor naïve souls.
Quote #7
The rest of the morning went like any other. She ate some wild apples and worked the knots out of her hair with her ivory comb […]. She put it away, shoving the mystery of her bleeding to the back of her mind and hoping to leave it there. It was over, she thought. Over. (3.7.9)
When Mab gets her period for the first time, she chooses to ignore the problem rather than ask someone for help. Maybe if she just pretends it's not happening it will go away. That's logical, right?
Quote #8
He was lying. It would hurt. Like roots being ripped asunder, it would hurt. He was sorry for it, but he didn't know any other way. (3.11.13)
Maybe it's for the best that Mihai lies to Esmé about how much splitting her soul from the Druj Queen will hurt. After all, being "ripped asunder" doesn't exactly sound like a walk in the park.
Quote #9
Mihai whispered her to sleep, catching her body and cradling her for a moment in his arms, his hand splayed tenderly over her belly, before laying her down on her bed of furs. He did not want her to suspect what she carried within her. (3.15.61)
It's probably not ethical to have the Druj Queen incubate inside Mab's unborn baby without Mab's consent—especially when Mab hates the Druj Queen and everything that she's inflicted on her human pets.
Quote #10
Mab watched her beloved daughter warily now, as if she didn't really know her. The thought that all along, while she had believed them safe, Esmé had carried Mab's tormenter within herself… it was a shock that would not easily fade. It was all the horrors of her youth unveiled anew, compounded by betrayal. (3.17.20)
Even though Esmé technically hasn't done anything to Mab, it's still hard for her to think that her darling daughter's soul was once home to her worst enemy. How could that not feel like betrayal?