I’m hoping you end up happily married to the man of your dreams and have a hoard of beautiful kids that’ll keep you on your toes by turning your neighbours into various types of pond-life.”...

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

You’re not allowed to have legs and not use them.Dance.

I’m a selfish, selfish bitch. Because all I can think about, is whether I’ll regret it in three hours, when we walk out of here, and I never know, not even once, what it’s like...

One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

Time flies when you grow fangs and fur.

He pulled out a dagger from … she wasn’t sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there? (Amy’s thoughts, The Witching Pen)

I love your independence, I love that you don’t swoon, I love that you’ll fight me with your last breath if you think I’m wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear...

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

…you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

I loved you instantly, because angels can love instantly.

God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.

A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet.

I was going to write that all your clothes fall off, but figured you may have a problem with that. This was the second thing that came to mind.”(Karl and Elena)

It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he felt bruised all over; the second was that his clothes were waterlogged, even more than before,...

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given…

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

…it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

Is that a trick question?

I don’t think of faith as something you need to have in the world, or in some deity or religion or whatever; I think having faith is about trusting in yourself, and trusting that you’ll...

How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you.

I’m only saying what you won’t. He’s a hunk, admit it. A tall, dark, exotic hunk who wants to bed you, and you must be a fucking nun, because it’s been three weeks since you...

Let me degrade you, Katherine.

Do you remember what we just did? Please tell me you remember what we just did.”She briefly toyed with the idea of lying and saying no, just to see the look on his face, but...

Did you just say, ‘love-fuck’?

Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn’t matter anymore.

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

And then there was Lydia.Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts and a fuck-me scent so palpable that he’d betrayed the only woman...

At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases to exist, and so, apparently does any logic that my mind is hanging...

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

…and my fucking salvation.

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’.

To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.

And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back…

So much ice.She thumbed a drying tear away.How much water can the weight of ice carry?

I swear it.

…today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it’s just that we’re taught not to notice. We’re taught...

Half naked, he drank her in with his eyes, imprinting this moment into his mind. This, he would take to his death – the woman that stirred him to life.

It’s always wow. You’re wow. I’ll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life.

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo’s gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she’d told him her version yet. She had balls of steel,...

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so...

The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices...