Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.

I don’t believe that.” She seems like suck a force,this reasonable girl who kills with a turn of her fingers. She would have left all this behind, if she had the chance. “I honestly don’t...

You make me want things that I can’t have.

I’ve sort of been slacking off in my voodoo studies.I’ve trigonometry, you know?

It’s shitty I guess. They’re my friends. But… everything I want to talk about I can’t say to them. It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me.

I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.

I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don’t know what to...

In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.

You fuck – you ate my cat!

As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I’m starting to get the urge to go back to class.

I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp.

Girls, on the other hand, have always come easy. I don’t know why that is, exactly. Maybe it’s the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look. Maybe it’s something I think I see sometimes in...

What are you going to fill it with?” she asks. “Holy water or something?” “Probably Dasani,” Thomas replies.

I´ve been Obeahed by an Obeahman? Is this like how the smurfs say they smurfing smurfed all the time?

You’re sure you didn’t leave? Didn’t try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don’t know, dismember some poor jogger?

You wouldn’t think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat up—in so many interesting ways—from a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on...

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.

Anna’s eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither...

I want to get some sleep, so if there’s something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?

It’s the wrong way. She’s farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

We’ve got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you’d expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.

This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.

I had a million different dreams but none of them was stronger than the rest. In the end they probably would have paralyzed me.

Fucking nightmares.My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and...

The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn’t my mommy calling them big fat liars?

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.

What do you think the Order is going to do?” he asks. “Help us open a door to Hell, if we’re lucky,” I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

They shouldn’t be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.

Life doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t care about fair or unfair.