Teaser Tuesday: Unraveling & A Clash of Kings

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the Title & Author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Shannon's Teaser:

  "I don't know what you want me to say," Ben says. His voice is quiet and cracks slightly at the end, as if he feels helpless, as if he wishes he had some kind of answer. And that is almost enough to make me back off and leave Ben Michaels and whatever freaky crap he's into alone. Only I'm tired of being hollow inside.
  You'll still be thinking you haven't really done anything.
  I want to feel something. I want to feel...alive.
  And whatever he says, Ben Michaels is the reason I have that chance.

~pg. 64, Unraveling (ARC) by Elizabeth Norris

Carrie's Teaser:

  "Mercy was for this morning," said Theon. It is better to be feared than laughed at. "Before they made me angry."

~pg. 552, A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin