The Academy Quotes

“Trouble. Sweetheart. Sang. Don't. Don't slip away." He sniffed.
I felt a droplet meeting my forehead.
Gabriel was crying.
"I need you," he whispered. "Comeback to me. I need you.”
― C.L.Stone

“You're a beautiful wreck.”
― C.L.Stone

“Trouble, I swear, if you weren't so damn cute...”
― C.L.Stone

“Family is a choice.”
― C.L.Stone

“I mean it," Gabriel said. "Do you know that girl that came after us nearly gave me a heart attack? She said Trouble's in trouble. Again. Second time in a week. And what do I see when we get to the hallway? Trouble jumping from the fucking second floor, does a barrel roll and hobbles up to get back in the fight. And you're on top of some motherfucker on top of Silas. Fucking beautiful. So that's like quadruple grounding because you went in twice. I swear if you go over that balcony again, I'm going to break your damn feet so you can't go anywhere near it.”
― C.L.Stone

“She is Trouble," Gabriel groaned. "And you know it."
"Nope, she's aggele mou."
"A devil's angel, maybe.”
― C.L.Stone

“You're too sweet for your own damn good.”
― C.L.Stone

“Your my Trouble”
― C.L.Stone

“I froze, finding myself in the middle of an entire display of delicate paper animals. I'd found the door to Narnia”
― C.L. Stone, Ghost Bird I: The Academy Omnibus Part 1: Books One - Four Plus Bonus

“It was a rite of passage in the academy, when the light in a girl’s eye would dim and her gaze grew impassive, soulless. Глаза мертвеца. Dead Man’s eyes, she remembers overhearing an older girl once whisper in passing.”
― Nikita Volt, The Weapon Who Wept

“Seven words were all it took to turn her into that scared little girl again. The one who hid beneath her bedsheets, cowering as her future snuffed out her past. The one who wept into the Mistress’ shoulder as the woman supposedly carried her away from the danger, from the pain. That foolish, scared little girl.”
― Nikita Volt, The Weapon Who Wept