What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?

He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was even more persuasive than the last one. This was everything about Cole’s smile made into a...

There are times I may not be able to control myself. I am injured, and I need to feed – this would be one of those times.” ~Cole

Being Tranquil didn’t sound so bad to him. He’d been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like it would be a relief to get it over with. You...

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

I don’t know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down.” ~Cole

Yet she was so sweet. She wasn’t a hard-ass, wasn’t jaded after all that had been done to her. In bed, she was giving and generous. And she smiled a lot. She seemed to enjoy...

When a woman submits to a man, it’s the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else...

So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?” Cole said dryly. “Why didn’t I ever try that approach? I like books and trees.

She leaned against him, listening to his strong heartbeat as they cuddled together.Maybe he didn’t say all the right things, and maybe he didn’t do it all in the right way, but he was hers,...

Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there’d be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town,...

Dame tu corazon” Ladeo su cabeza, se inclinó hacia delante, observando mis ojos todo el tiempo para estar seguro de que estaba bien, y me besó ligeramente en los labios.”Ya lo tienes.

I’m not scared. Not anymore.

Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages’ worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don’t think so,...

Siempre supue que cambiarias mi vida.” miro lejos, brevemente y sacudio su cabeza a algún desconocido recuerdo. “Sabes una psiquica una vez me dijo que no tendría ninguna otra pérdida después de ti. Que serías...

He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check – big show, I wasn’t!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe....

He’d have to be, right?

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, “Let go of Frosty’s leash. You’re choking the life out of him.” Kat’s eyes narrowed to tiny slits, a sure sign of her aggression. “He deserves to...

I’d do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I’d walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you.

He paused and let out a little sigh. Then I’m saying it wrong, because it has everything to do with you. I want what Hades and Persephone had, and I can’t do it without you....

Jared was completely gone now, holding his stomach and laughing so hard that tears were running down his face. Matt turned on him and snapped, “It’s not funny,” which only made Jared laugh harder.”Any of...

Cole steps forward, his fingers reaching around my shoulders, and kisses me. It is sudden and smooth and soft as air against my lips. The wind whips around us, tugging at the fabric of our...

I tell him there’ll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What’s this really about?”Max shrugged. “A girl.”I glared at Max. “Dude. Shut up.

He’d only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam’s clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace...

Well,” I ask, leaning over him, “do you wish to stay?””I do.””And why is that, Cole?” I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.”Well,” he says with a smile, “the weather’s quite...

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

That’s how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

I listen to silence. And you have a lot to say. Although I haven’t quite figured out what it is yet….I promise not to delve into what makes your silence so loud, if you promise...

How are you still sane?””Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me.”Shit.

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, “That’s how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole