Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that’s ripe for saving

the Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf’s back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the...

Suddenly, Tara’s accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school’s various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school’s history. She was like a...

When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some...

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

The good Lord wouldn’t have put it in your heart if it wasn’t right.

You know,” he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, “this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out....

And so, as the mob backs away to give them space… as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as...

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we’re so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain’t natural.

Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost,...

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears...

Look behind you now.Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful sense that something momentous is about to happen?… Perhaps, then, this is the hour that Mary Hightower...

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest–that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn’t, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it’s trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant...

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

What if we get to make it one or the other?

You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.’Risa closes her eyes. She...

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

It’s a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

I can’t destroy things so beautiful.””Time will destroy them if you don’t. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

Yeah, well, we’re all almost something.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.””You already hit him with a car.

You tell your brother he’s gonna pay for that car in silver.

And,” added Mikey. “she’s my sister.”The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing.”Yeah, yeah,” Squirrel scoffed, “and the McGill is my cousin.”Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed.”If...

It’s always the lesser of two evils.”I don’t see why there have to be any evils at all.’-Connor

Hayden shouts, “To the new Teen Uprising!

Maybe we’re standing like coins on the edge?”Allie considered this. “Meaning?””Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.””Or tails,” suggested Allie.”What are you talking...

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.

His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

…You know something, don’t you?””I know lots of things–your inquiry needs to be more specific.””Just answer the question.””True/false or multiple choice?

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you’ll be a whole lot happier.

He’s chocolate,” Mikey said.

I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is...

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.””The better to style with, my dear.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

In the end, blame didn’t shine on an individual. It was a floodlight cast on all of us. And all because we longed for healing and happiness- as if happiness is a state of being....

There are worse things than being robbed…” I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. “…worse things than dyin’ even. You be a good boy, Little...

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure...

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C’mon—it’s not like we haven’t thought about it.” (…)What do you think, Connor?” asks Hayden. “What hap­pens to your soul when...

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.