You blame me for this, don’t you?” he says.”I don’t need to. You’re doing a better job.

Don’t believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and...

He’s my father!” she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion.”Vestie!” Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. “I’ll snip at the tongue if I ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to...

Promise me you’ll never stop dreaming.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?” Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I’m not ready to say hello to...

People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.

I hope you’re not smoking in front of her,’ Lucia says to him.’Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,’ he says, irritated.

Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate’s mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?’ she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting...

Don’t let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return… because I think I’ll...

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate’s beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her...

I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I’m sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, “Frankie, you’re...

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don’t know how to wade through manure.

In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That’s...

For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light...

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I’m tired and the feeling that I’ve had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I’m frightened that one morning...

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don’t know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey....

At times it’s like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’She placed her head back against his...

I’ve been waiting for you all night and day,’ she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of...

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

I can’t believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn’t set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and...

The people I’m stuck with in my life now aren’t sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat...

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those...

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, “What can you see from here?” “Nothing” I said,”Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect”.

The pages aren’t numbered, so I don’t know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it’s in sequence but these days I’m not really looking for continuity.All I’m after is something that makes...

This is the best night of my life,” Raffy says, crying.”Raffy, half our House has burnt down,” I say wearily. “We don’t have a kitchen.””Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?” she asks....

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she’d never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.But that doesn’t mean I love you less.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

Truth is dangerous.

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others.

We didn’t let them do anything to us, Travanion,” Beatriss said fiercely, “They did it without out permission.

They’re my best friends, I’m going to know them until the day I die.

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

I remember passion.

Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?” I ask her after the lights are out and we’re almost asleep.”What makes you think were friends?””Everything.”I hear her yawn.”Being enemies with him is better.” she tells me....

I met this boy here who I knew as a kid and his mum left him with a pedophile for two weeks when he was eight years old and I’m presuming you know everything there...

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?’ Gargarin hissed.’The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get my hopes raised about something....

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

I’d run you know. It’s like when you’re really busy doing something and you don’t have time to think about things. Well, I’d run and run and run so I couldn’t think.

It’s like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.