I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I...

I force myself to lock away the fear.

First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?

I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I’ve never smelled like anything before.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

We’re running out of time, he said.As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if...

Uh, yeah – how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.

So that’s it?” Kenji says. “You just like him for his personality, huh?””What?””All of this,” Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, “has nothing to do with him being all sexy and shit and...

The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself....

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

In my very limited experience I’ve already found that people seeking power are not to be trusted.

It’s strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I’m one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a...

A tired starving dog so thin and frail it looks like it could be knocked over by the wind. But it’s staring at me. Unafraid. Mouth opened. Tongue lolling. I want to laugh out loud....

Lift your hips for me, love.

I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They’re incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to...

His smile is laced with dynamite.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

I hope he doesn’t know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don’t think I even know what love is

And I’ve fallen.So hard.I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I’ve felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I’ve known terror and indifference,...

You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.

He’s looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won’t look at me...

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

We have lost our humanity.

I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.

We’re too different now. We want different things. And this?” I say nodding at our hands. “All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

Right now I can’t even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced. I couldn’t scream because my lungs were torn apart or full of blood. I don’t know. I just had to...

The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone. H e l l i s e m p t y a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s...

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by...

I’m wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.

Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a...

Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?””What?” He looks mortally offended. “Do I look like the kind of guy who’s never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?

Laughter comes from living.” I shrug, try to sound indifferent. “I’ve never really been alive before.

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes.

Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it’s the only story you knew how to tell.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.

His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,”...

Things are changing, but this time I’m not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I’ve made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

I hear Warner laugh.I see him smile.It’s the kind of smile that transforms him into someone else entirely, the kind of smile that puts stars in his eyes and a dazzle on his lips and...

It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.

I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.

And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.

And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I’ll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.