How we cite our quotes: (Story.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The effect was to bring her face into focus, and Kizzy stared at it for minutes, getting the feeling that something had happened to her since the last time she had looked at herself, if indeed she ever really had. (1.3.1)
After spending so much time hating her body, Kizzy finds that it's not so bad after all. Maybe she's not as ugly as she always thought… and maybe boys like Jack Husk really are attracted to her.
Quote #2
She was feeling, under the vivid gaze of this soldier, that she had stepped out of a fog and been seen clearly for the first time. (2.4.42)
Anamique has spent her whole life thinking of herself as a dangerous ticking time bomb, ready to explode and kill her loved ones at any time. But when James looks at her, she feels like a girl who is ready for romance. It changes the way that she sees herself.
Quote #3
For days in a row they continued in this way, and slowly they discovered each other. The letters grew longer and Anamique's gray eyes lost a bit of the haunted shadow James had seen in them, and James' heart began to lift itself, step by step, out of the swamp of mud and ghosts in which it had been steeping since France. (2.5.26)
Anamique and James are good for each other. They both pull the other person out of their sad lives and inject some happiness and sunshine into the mix. Even James starts to get over the horror of seeing all his friends die, and starts thinking of a brighter future.
Quote #4
She watched mischievously as his eyes swept the room, passed over her twice before finally fixing on her face with a flash of surprise. His startled brown eyes dropped to her shoulders, then down to her ankles and darted quickly back up to her face as a blush overspread his cheeks. (2.9.2)
Anamique's get-up for her eighteenth birthday party is meant to send the message that she's not some meek little girl who can't think for herself anymore. No, Anamique wants everyone to know that she's a smart, strong, sensual woman.
Quote #5
Something was happening to her. Something was building in her, rising. Her breath came faster. Her skin felt feverish. Eighteen years of calm were swept away in a sudden wild rush, like the monsoon floods that ravage mangrove islands and whisk tigers out to sea. (2.9.23)
So much for staying a calm silent girl. When Anamique realizes that even James is afraid of the curse, she snaps. She can't just stay silent and wonder if the curse is real for the rest of her life—she needs to know for once and for all.
Quote #6
Their wedding was small, just the two of them with Pranjivan—eternally shadowless now—and Anamique's parents and sisters, who recalled every moment of their strange resurrections. (2.12.1)
Anamique isn't the only one who comes out of Hell with a new perspective. All of her friends and family members remember dying and being resurrected again, and that has got to change things for them.
Quote #7
Six days before Esmé's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turned from brown to blue. It happened in the night. She went to sleep with brown eyes, and when she woke up at dawn to the howling of wolves, her left eye was blue. (3.P.1)
All adolescents expect to see some pretty drastic physical changes over the course of time, but not like what Esmé goes through. How do you go to sleep with two brown eyes and wake up with one vividly blue eye? It's unnerving, to say the least.
Quote #8
"Or they can use your eyes as windows and climb inside you, shoving their dark animus into your soul and filling it, like brutal fingers thrust into a child's glove." (3.3.11)
The Druj like to partake in a creepy and terrifying pastime—taking over human bodies and walking around in them. It must be weird to try on and shed different bodies whenever you want to.
Quote #9
Grown up. How little those words had meant to Mab then! Surrounded by changeless Druj, what did she have to go on? Kittens growing long and lean? Deer sprouting antlers to clash in the rut? (3.7.19)
Mab has no idea what it means to grow up because she's been around the immortal Druj all her life. All she knows is that she's suddenly gotten her period and that her body is changing.
Quote #10
It had taken Mihai thirteen cycles of hathra, thirteen souls interknit with his animus, for the ashes of his soul to gather again inside of him, bringing his memories with them, piece by piece. (3.16.8)
Mihai may not be able to ever go back to being completely human, but he can at least try to regain a human soul and emotions. By going through hathra again and again, he's slowly getting there…