I’ve never felt so… light.

But if I’m it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I’m going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am...

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

You can put the girl in a relationship…,” I began, putting my arm around her. “But you can’t take the boy-crazy out of the girl,” Cassie finished.

We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.

Just say, ‘no’, Alex, dear.””You make him sound like a drug.

‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in...

You can’t tell me you’re not cold in those shorts.””Freezing,” she admitted, handing Alex her messenger bag as she got to her feet. “But dammit, I look cute and we both know that’s what counts.””Naturally.

I’ve decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget...

She looks tan…-ish.””There’s a fine line between ‘tan’, and looking like you just rolled around in a giant bag of Doritos. And Miranda seems to prefer the nacho cheese variety.

You’re the mayfly,’ he murmurs.And then Evan Walker kisses me.Holding my hand across his chest, his other hand sliding across my neck, his touch feathery soft, sending a shiver that travels down my spine into...

I beg your pardon?” He sounded almost polite suddenly, as if he believed he couldn’t possibly have heard right.

I dab at the blood with some gauze from the kit, fighting back hysterical giggles. I blame it on the unbearable stress, not on the fact that I’m wiping Evan Walker’s ass.

I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.”What’s that?”Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

Speaking of fruit, I’m down–I mean, he’s down–to his underwear.

I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn’t smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there...

That’s it,” he said bitterly. “Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can’t hear you and they can’t see you and can’t feel how really bad you feel, but cry for...

You know, you really don’t have to kill anyone over this. I’ll get an annulment. It will be like never happened”His eyes came to her, briefly meeting her gaze before dropping to her mouth. “You’ll...

When I cry – when I let myself cry – that’s who I cry for. I don’t cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that’s gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of...