The Demon's Surrender

“I’ll kill Seb and take it from his body,” Nick suggested.
“Your plan is always killing, Nicholas,” Alan said. “It worries me. I want you to have many goals.”

“Love always costs more than you can afford to pay,” he said. “And it’s always worth the price.”

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"I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," Nick said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it."

"We're friends, too, aren't we?" Sin laughed a little.
Nick blinked. "No."
Sin stared at him. "What?"
"I've already got one," Nick told her.

“Is this no-shirts festival day?”
“Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day.”

"Am I making sense?"
Nick stared at him. "Hardly ever in your entire life."

There are some roles you can`t play without changing who you are.

As Sin watched, Nick drew level with Mae and said something to her, too low for Sin to hear, and Mae whirled around and punched him in the face.
"What was that?" Nick asked.
Sheer horror at what she had done crossed Mae`s face for a split second, only to be submerged in the rising flood of rage.
"I`m serious," Nick said while she shook. "What was that? Don`t punch people with your thumb inside your fist like that. You could break your thumb that way."

"I mean, we`re friends too, aren`t we?" She laughed a little.
Nick blinked. "No."
Sin stared at him. "What?"
"I`ve already got one," Nick told her.
"You`ve already got one- friend?" Sin asked slowly.
Nick nodded. "He`s a lot of trouble. I don`t think I can deal with any more."

"If he doesn't have a soul, I thought - I wanted to give him mine. I feel as if I did."

• Alan Ryves

“Okay,” Sin said. “Why aren’t you at school?”
“Why aren’t you at school?” Nick echoed.
“Uh, my uniform burned up. When my home exploded into flames.”
“So did mine,” said Nick. “When I tossed a lighter into my wardrobe. Tragic, really.”

“So you’re not normal,” Sin said. “You want to take on crazy burdens, and you lie all the time, and you think you might not have a soul. You’re terribly strange. And you thought going after normal girls would work out?”

“You’re not one of those crazed conspiracy nuts who thinks Shakespeare was a magician, are you?”
Alan’s face lit with his smile in return. “Some people might say the theory isn’t crazy but the only way to explain Shakespeare’s extraordinary time management.”

“What sort of plan?” Sin asked apprehensively.
“I don’t know, I’m not any good at plans,” Nick said. “Well, I’ve got a stage one: Kill some people. After that you’ve lost me.”
“Stage two, kill some more people?” Sin asked. “Stage three’s a bit of a mystery to me as well.”

Alan pushed gently past Nick, as if Nick was a child rather than six feet of well-armed bad temper.

You and Jamie are all that is protecting the world from me. You should think about this before you throw both your lives away.

I want you, but I don`t want to be yours. I want to be mine.

"I could use an ally."
Sin saw the wariness in Seb`s eyes, but he took a step forward all the same.
"What do you mean by an ally?"
"I mean someone who will support everything I do," Jamie ansered, with a faint, unpleasant smile, "and do everything I say."

At school, you were the one with all the power, and you made my life miserable. And now I`m the one with the power, and you want to be freinds. Isn`t it funny how that works?