I’ll kill him.

I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy...

Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

Nobody wants to be born a One. One’s have the shortest lifespan. They must turn themselves in to The Protectorate for termination at age twenty-five. If I were ever going to feel sympathy for Darian,...

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Evangeline,” he sighed. “It ain’t ever goan to be easy with you, is it?

Shut up.

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.”What happened?” Matt asked, gasping.I went from one person...

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.

What if the Devil doesn’t know he’s the Devil?

Because this is the beginning, not the end.

Slowly, he lifts the flashlight. Her shorts are torn and frayed, her shirt ripped from chest to naval, exposing her black bra and dirty stomach. And then he raises the light so it reflects off...

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

I’m sure that they’ll be able to realize how wrong it all is… even though the idiots outnumber most people these days, there are still enough intelligent people to fight against it.

There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia,” said Kiyu. “Otherwise we have nothing.

This is a battle trophy and nothing to be ashamed of. Every one of your scars makes you more beautiful to me.

If I didn’t love so damn hard Iwouldn’t have someone to risk my life for.

Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

… You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity.

When you got captured, I didn’t know…” He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. “If it’d be like…””What?””Like it was with Clotile.””Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I’m unharmed.””Didn’t know if...

You’re saying everything I want to hear, but I don’t know if I can trust it.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.

Not in this country.

She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

They want to suck your blood,” Rob says in a Romanian accent.Jaden snorts. Too bad humor won’t help them out of this mess.

Right now, you and me? This feels like fate, if fate can be felt.

Plus, I just washed it.

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever...

That’s real.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is...

you’re risking everything to help me.

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

A man without a footprint has no soul.

And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead

We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained”-Boys of the Fatherless-

I’m sorry,” he says. No two words were ever truer.Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She’s the flaw in the paragon of...

Gage is waiting on the makeshift bed when she enters the room she’s been sleeping in. The small lantern in the corner barely lights his features. His shoulders are hunched, his hands clasped together before...

He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction. I can only form one clear thought. This is no place for a girl on fire.

Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease...