Ashley Maggio

“His ideal companion did not know what anger was. Her voice would never drip with sarcasm. And, of course, since she was not real, it was easy for her not to have strong emotions, to be only smiles and cuddles and wholesome perfection.”
― Sherry Thomas, His at Night

“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

“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

“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