I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you...

Is that love, do you think?” he asks, sounding genuinely curious. “Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?

Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of all, though nothing could be further from the truth. Taking an...

…real teenage boys aren’t like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They’re still learning, just like you.

But maybe that isn’t possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it’s the definition of madness to believe I’m right and everyone else...

Despite the love songs humankind churns out like butter, true lovers don’t come together every day. As the Mercinaries ply their trade – destroying hope, crushing compassion, inciting war and violence – soul-mated pairs are...

Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart.

I am always alone, pretending to be someone else or lost in a vast emptiness. I miss life. I miss conversation and laughter and shared joy and hurt. I miss dancing and painting. I miss...

I am not much of a mind to touch

My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.

There’s always been sadness hidden at the core of Hitch, but it’s never been big enough to taste. Occasionally, I’d get a whiff of it, salty on the wind, but it never pressed in between...

It’s only sixteen ninety-five,” I say with a flutter of my lashes.”You’re serious.”I prop my hands on my waist and stick out a hip, striking a pose worthy of a supermodel. “Look at me. Don’t...

The myriad of flavors explode on my tongue, shimmy through my mouth, slap my taste buds and call them filthy bastards, and I love it.

There’s something weird about that guy,” she whispers as she slips into the car, bringing an unexpected smile to my face.Ah, Ariel. Some might say she has poor taste, but I cant help but be...

Real love has little to do with falling. It’s a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the...

Is there anything hotter than a cute guy who is also armed and dangerous? I think not.

She is so beautiful. Perfect. Mine.No. Not mine. I am hers.

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?

We’ll go down to the stream behind the house with a bottle of wine and none of our clothes and remind each other that–even in the midst of so much goodness–there are delightful ways to...

Because the part of me that remembers what it was like all those lifetimes ago still cares for you .. loves you.

Love doesn’t want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn’t value obedience over all else. Love doesn’t judge and find some lives–or loves–more valuable than others. Love doesn’t use people and throw them away....

I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. ” — Gem