Ashley Maggio

“Jo worshipped fighting. She dreamed about being a comic-book superheroine -- just so she'd have an excuse to mess people up. With no superpowers on the horizon, she'd launched a one-girl guerrilla war, kicking the ant mound and running.”
― Kresley Cole, Sweet Ruin

“In the pool, I thought you were asking me if I wanted more kissing – then the next thing I see is a condom? You couldn’t have cared less if I was freaked out because you skipped over all the bases I’d thought to expect, or nervous about your ancient-looking protection or – or not ready to go that fast! In general. I didn’t expect you to declare, like, love for me forever or anything. But for my first time, I’d hoped for more than ‘It’s slim pickings out there.”
― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess

“Arthur, I…I’d just been released from a mental institution.' She looks up at me from under he lashes, gauging my reaction while seeming to dread it.
I just stop my jaw from dropping. 'Mental institution?'
I’d been sick the last quarter of my sophomore year, so my mom made me go to a clinic in Atlanta.'
This girl’s been heaven-sent for me! I, too, had been sick. Until I’d tested my concoctions on myself, eventually discovering a cure.”
― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess

“This troubled girl is a frail in mind as she is in body. She’s mine. Heaven-sent. I know I can take the merest spark of madness and make insanity flare to life.”
― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess