It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered…”

“No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warn…”

“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some pr…”

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and di…”