Declan, get your ass out of bed!”A light flicked on and Declan stumbled into view through the open window. He looked to be only half awake and was missing his shirt.Alex, on the other hand, was not missing that shirt in the slightest.

I reached and ran a finger along her collarbones, my favorite place: like the silhouette of tiny wings.

Eat it,” I ordered, holding it with two hands now, making it dance in the air. “It’s begging you. ‘Eat me’.”He arched a brow.”Perv,” I muttered.Aiden pressed his lips together, but when he glanced at me and my dancing bun, he burst into laughter. “All right, give me the bun.

Vegas.I was in Vegas with a Titan who needed to get drunk and laid.

Tipping my head back, I screamed.Unlocked from the depths of my soul, it kept coming and coming. I couldn’t stop it. I couldn’t comprehend what I’d become—the things I had done. And when I stopped, it was only because my throat was raw.

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps in their wake.

You really didn’t appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t...

How did I love her?Let me count the ways.The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a shadow; the way she chewed her lip when she was thinking and the way her ponytail swung when she walked and how when she ran she looked like she was born going fast and how she fit...

It’s disgusting. Freaky—stop laughing, Seth!

Perfect,” the god said.

Wasn’t that a season finale on Supernatural?’ When the boys nodded, my eyes rolled.’Seriously? Are Sam and Dean going to be there?

I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is cloudedand I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is theopposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much.Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.

Moshe was a tall Israeli with an ear-splitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. Hearing the laugh made me blink instinctively, like hearing a hammer pound on brick or metal. Our conversation was impeded by having to watch him through the...

Dear God, surely you aren’t the chef Sam was talking about?””No,” he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. “Cale here is.””Kale?” Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn’t see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver...

If you’re going to carry a dagger, you need to learn to use it.”I frowned at him. “I know how to use it. I stick the pointy end in things I don’t like.

Promise me we’ll stay together, okay?” His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. “You and me.””I promise,” I say.Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: “Don’t...

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him–his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for...

Since when do you care about rules?” “I’m a changed person.””When did you change? Just now? ‘Cuz I heard about your smack down in the cafeteria yesterday.

The god laughed darkly. “Let’s just say I made sure he was playing on our team.”Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. “Use your imagination,” he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places.

This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn’t it? Breaking into a different country.””Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together.””Been there, done that….Alex seriously, are you sure no one’s going to shoot us?

Probably getting it on with the English teacher.” – Alex Gold and Mike Wilson

You don’t get to decide what’s to big a risk for me. You don’t decide what’s good for me and what isn’t. That’s my decision, Dylan. If you care about me so much, then how dare you do this all by yourself? I choose not to destroy my present because of the risk of a...

Where are we?” She sat up.”My room at the cabin.””Your room?”He propped himself up on one elbow and shrugged his other shoulder. “Needed someplace soft to land. Besides…Now when you teleport without a destination you’ve got a fifty-fifty chance of either ending up in the lake, or in my bed. I have to say, I...

The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

Do you really need me to answer that?”A hot, sweet flush stole across my cheeks. When he was like this—open, flirty, and downright sexy—I was at my lamest. I wasn’t used to this side of him. I don’t think I ever would be, and there was something thrilling in that. But I stared at him,...

Karma was a bitch and a half.

Do you love him?” I blurted out.Laadan swallowed and a long pause followed. In the gap, I heard someone moving around in the kitchen.I started to grin. “You like him.”Looking away, her lips pursed.I nudged her with my elbow. “You like him a lot.”She drew herself up. “Your father—””Is the love of your life?”Alexandria,” she...

Don’t you understand what you mean to me? You are everything. Never doubt that. My place is with you, only you.

He’s got courage,” Alex said.”Courage!” Raoul bellowed. “That coward almost kills him and–

Why can’t you like me?” he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. “Why can’t you like me just a little?”She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the...

Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?””I don’t know any other way.””Let me show you.”And then we’re kissing. Or at least, I think we’re kissing—I’ve only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen,...

There was one painting, I remember, that showed a broad, clean sweep of sky and the ocean drawn out to the horizon, and the sand littered with seashells and crabs and mermaid’s purses and bits of seaweed. A boy and girl were standing four feet apart, not facing each other, not acknowledging each other in...

How in the world did they just jump from politics, to a ball, and now to daimon attacks? And here I’d thought I had the attention span of an ant on Red Bull.

Apollo nodded and Dionysus bowed to the room, sweeping his arms out to the sides with a flourish. And then he was gone.I shook my head. “Okay. Who else thinks he was high as a kite?”Hands went up across the room and I grinned.

We’re in this together, Alex. Don’tever forget that. We’re in this together to the end.

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.””They say ‘LB,’ Carlos. The initials for Latino Blood.””No, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong. He wants everyone to think that, but...

…what do you want to know? Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. 😀 I’m 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I’ve had one long-term serious relationship…

We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it’s not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If it’s worse than expected, we complain. If it’s just as bad as predicted, we complain about that, too, because we’ll...

His shoulders sagged as he stepped back. Then a half smile made the edge of his lips crook. ” You’re mad at me.””And that’s amusing because?”The half smile spread into a lopsideed grin, and he stood up straighter. “You wouldn’t be mad if you didn’t care. I’m onto you, Alexis.”Oh, that insufferable, arrogant–

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she’d done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans.After that, I couldn’t think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a...

Gods were like possums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family.

Maybe,” she grinned.

You knowwhat? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around meand we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

I assure you, you’ll survive. The second she starts running her mouth about Aiden, just spray her with bleach. That’ll teach her a lesson.”-Emma and Whitney

At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another’s sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lots of laughing. Then the laughing stopped and there was this silence. What the hell was it?It was...

Občas prostě musíš udělat něco špatného, abys zabránil něčemu ještě mnohem horšímu. Mám chránit tenhle svět před těmi špatnými a budu to dělat za každou cenu. A jestli to ze mě dělá monstrum… to už nějak přežiju.

Soy un mentiroso.Siempre estuve mintiendo. Ella se merecía un ángel, y yo quería serlo por ella.