Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?”I’ve already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?”Elvish.

Noah’s eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the...

I hate you,” I muttered.Noah smiled wider. “I know.

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

What would you do if I kissed you right now?”I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. “I would kiss you back.

Does anyone know how to start a fire?”Blank stares. “So we can’t start a fire,” [Jamie] said. “We can’t fly. We can’t create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.

Taste the rainbow bitch.

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

Now you won’t fall.”Too late.

Jamie said in that voice of his, “You never saw us.””I never saw you,” the driver repeated, sounding dazed. “You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs.”...

Have you made any other friends since we’ve been here?”I gave him the death stare. “Yes, actually.””Who? I want a name.””Jamie Roth.””The Ebola kid? I heard he’s a little unstable.””That was one incident.

I’d wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself…I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I...

Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging,even when I wasn’t conscious of it. Even when I wasn’t thinking about it.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you.”My tongue warred with my mind. “Today,” I whispered.Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. “Today. Tonight. Tomorrow....

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.

Fix me,” I commanded him. “This thing, what I’ve done- there’s something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it.”Noah’s expression broke my heart as he brushed my hair from my face and skimmed the line of...

You’re supposed to say, ‘All I want is your happiness. I’ll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'””Sorry,” Noah said. “I’m just not that big of a person.

My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a...

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

Why?’ He asked.’Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

I’ll love you to ruins.

I didn’t know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.

Have you kissed many boys before?” he asked quietly. His question brought my mind back into focus. I raised an eyebrow. “Boys? That’s an assumption.” Noah laughed, the sound low and husky. “Girls, then?””No.””Not many...

Wait,” I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. “Where are you going?””To read?”But I don’t want you to. “But I need to go home,” I said, my...

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.

You could start a fire with the heat between you two.””You’re mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

Don’t even think it.

I was warned about you, you know.”And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, “But you’re here anyway.

Is there any point asking what you’re going to make me do on Sunday?”Not really.’Okay. ‘Is there any point asking what you’re going to do to me?’He grinned wickedly. ‘Not really.’Fabulous. ‘Does it involve the...

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as...

You smell good,” he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. “Really?” “Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.