Shannon Smith

“By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.'
'You can put it like that. I'm utterly useless.'
'Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely... inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the beginning.'
'I'm not that stupid. I know how to add, subtract and multiply-'
'I don't mean that kind of beginning...”
― Charlotte Munro, The Lockharts

“Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up.”
― Charlotte Munro, The Lockharts

“I sunk to my knees in the spot he had left me. I felt a part of me had just been lost. I was fraught with so many emotions, confused by them all; however, I was hurt more than anything. Hurt to hear him call himself a monster. A monster? Of all the things I thought he was, a monster was not one of them.”
― Charlotte Munro, The Lockharts

“Such a pity, really; the prey falling for the predator. The victim in love with the killer... A mere mortal girl thinking a demon was capable of love.”
― Charlotte Munro, The Lockharts