Gideon laughed. “I like to be direct.””Okay,” I said. “But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages.” “I doubt it.””Human interaction is not my strong point,” I told...

Why should I? What do you promise me?Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard’s elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as...

When I was younger I used to think that band-aids did all the work. I mean after all, it binds your wound together and makes everything better back to the way it was. But then...

This made my father laugh. ‘Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.’Peter then burst out: ‘Why must you always be making a...

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

I didn’t care that we were out in public. I didn’t care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

There comes a time in every woman’s life where she will decide to eat cookie dough. It is when and how that truly defines her.

And I think I’m underappreciated.

I HAVE MADE THIS FOR YOU. She reached out and took a damp square of cardboard. Water dripped off the bottom. Somewhere in the middle, a few brown feathers seemed to have been glued on....

And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms.” I didn’t need to see him to know he wore a smile. “Stop laughing,” I said, my cheeks hot with humiliation. “Get me down.””Jump.””What?””I’ll catch you.””Are...

if this is a dream,then look in my eye’s,am i asleep,no i’m alive,just can’t believe that,this is my life,’cause every moment is just so wild

It’s better than I imagined–and I imagined it a lot. Tucked away in a corner at school. On the track during gym class. In his car. On the street by my house. In a fancy...

I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

Well, if you can’t have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

Can you just . . . can you go get dressed and come with me and we’ll talk about it later? My mom’s expecting you.

Hey,’ he said, touching my waist. ‘Hey. It’s okay.’ I nodded and wiped my face with the back of my hand. ‘He sucks.’ I nodded again. ‘I’ll write you an epilogue,’ Gus said. That made...

Yeah, prom.”Shock was not a deep enough word to describe what I was feeling over this proposal. This was Jim, the kid who swore up and down he would rather gouge out his eyes with...

I reached for his other hand, which he quickly accepted and I pulled him up into a hug. I didn’t know what the other kids in the room were thinking or saying or doing. And...

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That’s all I was going to say.

Daemon pressed his forehead against mine. “Oh, I still want to strangle you. But I’m insane. You’re crazy. Maybe that’s why. We just make crazy together.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Why are they all high-calorie foods?

Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

She wasn’t any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.