You think it can’t get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

There is no truth,” Stephanie said mysterously. “Only perspectives.

…while Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.

Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?”I’ve already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?”Elvish.

You smell good,” he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. “Really?” “Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.

My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a...

You’re supposed to say, ‘All I want is your happiness. I’ll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'””Sorry,” Noah said. “I’m just not that big of a person.

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.

We are far too screwed-up for a goddamned lovetriangle.”That’s my Jamie.

I hate you,” I muttered.Noah smiled wider. “I know.

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

I slipped in and out of consciousness as time stretched and flowed around me. Dreams and reality blurred, but I liked the dreams better. Noah was in them.I dreamed of us, walking hand in hand...

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears. ”What did you do?” I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door. ”The girl who gave you the note?””Yes…””I...

They lie, you know. It’s not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

Noah shifted on the bed, and the oddest crunching sound came underneath him. I looked, really looked, at the bed for the first time.”What,” I asked slowly, as I eyed the animal crackers strewn all...

Have you kissed many boys before?” he asked quietly. His question brought my mind back into focus. I raised an eyebrow. “Boys? That’s an assumption.” Noah laughed, the sound low and husky. “Girls, then?””No.””Not many...

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

Ow.””You had a mosquito.””No, I didn’t.

He didn’t look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah–sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah–cared. And that made him real.

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

Taste the rainbow bitch.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.

Why?’ He asked.’Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

Que difícil era saber lo que era real y lo que no

Have you made any other friends since we’ve been here?”I gave him the death stare. “Yes, actually.””Who? I want a name.””Jamie Roth.””The Ebola kid? I heard he’s a little unstable.””That was one incident.

I was warned about you, you know.”And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, “But you’re here anyway.

I didn’t know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.

And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don’t...

Noah started this chase and I stood before him, waiting to be caught. He could have me, but he refused to move.Only now did I realize why.He wanted to be caught. He was waiting for...

You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.

You like them,” I realized.Noah’s eyebrows lifted in question.”Like as people.””As opposed to…furniture?””They’re my PARENTS.””That is my understanding, yes.

I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as...

What would you do if I kissed you right now?”I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. “I would kiss you back.

Other people are usually wrong.

I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.

I’ll love you to ruins.

Something inside of me began to tear.

I have never read The Joy of Crap. Sounds disgusting. I have, however, read The Joy of Sex. Not in a while, but I think it’s one of those classics you can come back to...

Noah’s eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the...

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

Wait,” I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. “Where are you going?””To read?”But I don’t want you to. “But I need to go home,” I said, my...

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.

Does anyone know how to start a fire?”Blank stares. “So we can’t start a fire,” [Jamie] said. “We can’t fly. We can’t create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.

Now you won’t fall.”Too late.