I care,” he said in a trembling voice. “I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant...

Dad will come back,’ said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn’t look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. ‘You know, Charlie, I’m beginning to believe you,’ she said. ‘After what...

It doesn’t matter,” said Persephone. “He [Henry] wasn’t supposed to do that. While I ruled with him, we only made a few exceptions, and even then there were so many caveats that no one ever...

C’mon, Mee,’ Henry said. ‘You’re among family.’ ‘Totally,’ Kim said.

This is the gate between the living and the dead”, he said. “You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago.”A chill ran through me. “And you?””Me?” The corner of...

gives birth”—it’s much more noble. Yet we have the right to make such distinctions because we assign the meaning to the world by naming names of things; we inhabit a different sphere and we capitalize...

Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes...

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.

I was the cheerleader. Todd the captain of the football team. And Henry the stud dressed in black who cared nothing of football, yet still went to every game, watching beneath the bleachers looking for...

Henry,” said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, “if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our...

This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band...

D’you think he would have thought ahead like that?” said Henry. “Assuredly,” said Will. “The man’s a strategist.” He tapped his temple. “Like me.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Am I blind?” Will’s voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. “I’m not going to be at all pleased if you’ve blinded me, Henry.

Will interrupted. “Henry,” he said, “you’re on fire. You do know that, don’t you?

Theo’s already on his way. Paul might bee too, but communications have been down so long, I don’t know.””Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That’s madness.” Dad sighs. “Then again, jumping...

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad’s- and grinned. ” Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius.”pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss