Nothin’ wrong with havin’ a cat in the house. They can see what most people can’t, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over – the good ones and the bad. And...

Well? Is it true? Did she?””Did she what?””You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?

One thing I’d realized in the last year was that there were some things no one could give you permission to do. All the same, it didn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t do them— particularly...

I get it,” said Link. “Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you’re gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway.” “Something like that.

I’ll drive like my grandma. I’ll drive like your grandma.””You wouldn’t say that if you knew my gramma.

Seventeen moons, seventeen years,Eyes where Dark or Light appears,Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.

He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don’t get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Things changed. Then they changed again. Life was like that, and even death, I guess.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you’re some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

I’ll never love you anymore than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than Ido, right this second.

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries.

Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a...

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you’re asking what I’m doing here? Are you serious?

I can’t read your mind, you idiot.

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. “No, she’s all right.

They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how ’bout you?

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn’t made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn’t yet.

Lena was going down the list of John’s attributes in her mind, a list I was hoping wasn’t too long. “He could see and hear and smell things I couldn’t.”Link inhaled deeply, then coughed. “Dude,...

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still,...

The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

I care. They bother me. And that’s why I’m stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I’m stupid to the power of stupid.

Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.”Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl’s Guide to...

The stuffs you’re good at and the stuffs you’re bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don’t. And the people who love...

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren’t holding hands, it felt like we were.Because what we had, we knew.

I guess the sky in real life isn’t actually perfect. Maybe that’s what makes it so perfect.

Knowing you don’t have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.