The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel’s Ammu was fed...

Can you hold my hand the entire night?” My voice comes out as a quiet whisper.There’s a pause. I’m almost afraid to meet his eyes. Heartbeat picking up faster, his fingers interweave with mine and...

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.’ ‘Yes, we do,’ said Pippin sadly. ‘The story seems to be going on, but I am...

When your girlfriend broke your heart, don’t even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.

There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you. It broke his heart.

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn’t find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn’t exist anymore.

Sam,” she said.”I’m trying!””Sam,” she repeated.”No,” he spat, hearing her tone. “No!”He began screaming for help then. Celaena pressed her face to one of the holes in the grate. Help wasn’t going to come-not fast...

I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.

I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not made for humans.

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter… it fell softly… softly… and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children’s voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world,...

When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But...

He said that if I ever hurt you, he’d find me and kill me. I told him that if I ever hurt you, I’d want him to.” – Aiden MacRae

I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on...

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me.”–Zane to Willow in ‘The Edge of Sin’ in the Real Men Last all Night anthology

Sleep, my love,” He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. “I’ll be here to watch over you.””You sleep too,” she said groggily, her hand creeping...

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone,” he said. “I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you...

What you are to me is the guy that I’ve been madly in love with since sixth grade. You’re the guy I think about every night when I’m in bed by myself. You’re the one...

I’d love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don’t have one to give.

You’ll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers. You were eight years old, and I was twelve, and I thought, I...

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.

I’d fought alongside them in that battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. The angels weren’t supposed to feel emotion, but they were weeping....

After yoga, I’ll go to Lia’s for the mani-special and then wax on about hairstyles and hemlines until dinner.”If I were gifted at making long-term plans, which by now we all know I’m not, and...

I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are…or I am…I will only ever love you.

Commander Tool Belt” Jason said.”Bad Boy Supreme” Piper said.”Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert.”They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started...

Keep him. I have faith in you, Sister.Will and I breathed sighs of relief, but it was a few seconds before Michael withdrew his sword. His expression remained unchanging as he lifted Will’s death warrant.

She liked this. Liked the closeness. With lover’s she’d taken in the past, things had been short and sweet. She certainly hadn’t stuck about to snuggle in case they started to get ideas, not after...

I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

I don’t even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these sounds of a soul being ripped in two, the grief so long denied...

Do you think you can wait – because I don’t want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don’t want to hurt you…not ever…

When one is being driven to the edge, we either fight back or jump

Don’t worry about the water,” said a man with a nervous grin. “This is hardwood, it won’t ruin. You’ll have this chair into your old years. How much do you have? I’ll take anything. My...

River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, “If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you’re doing it.”After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, “Ah,...

The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn’t change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the family saw the shape of that beloved nose, the air would flee the...

Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there’s a chance I can make her happy… If I can save what’s between us… I’ll do it, so fucking tell me!

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to...

And just in general, I’m better. Better than I’ve been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn’t break my hear. But I’m beginning to wonder...

She smirks.”Are you attempting to stop me, little one?””Excuse me? Did you just call me ‘little one’? What are you? Like, four feet tall?” I ask.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

We don’t get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I...