We’re a symphony–our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music.

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

Believe me, I knew you enjoyed it without voicing it that way. It was like your body screamed for me to take you.”All too true, but I didn’t like it to be told aloud. I...

Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were...

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.

The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t want to sit here all night making small talk when all I want to do is kiss you.

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

Don’t see me as a girl. See me as a buddy of yours or something.”He cast his eyes downward and didn’t look back up to my face. I looked down and groaned. Such a guy....

There was no ‘I’ in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

I can’t just take it.’‘You can. I’m giving it to you.’ She affirms, glimpsing quickly up at me and then down to the floor, moving her foot once and then back again. Still her hand...

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

It’s easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all

Drive. He’s already dead.

What if I wrenched the steering wheel hard to the right and we went crashing into those mist-shrouded trees? Hell, Jane’s hunkload of men would probably appear from nowhere to rescue us, throwing themselves in...

You can’t get the blood out.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

I think it’s time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in life and take things for granted.

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my other one, too and she’s right there, that sweet candy perfume stripping the...

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

He nibbled on my lower lip again and pulled away, his breathing loud and labored. I opened my eyes and met two blue orbs so dark with desire that it almost made me lose all...

He took my hand and held it against his chest, “Feel that? It beats for you.

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

Part of me was slightly pissed off that this kiss with him hadn’t happened sooner. As in years ago sooner. Because this one little kiss—it literally rocked my world. He was morphine and I was...