I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why...

Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. ‘It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of you throwing yourself at guys just to try and get laid. Christ, I’d...

Maybe that was why another part of me–a very small part–had wanted to kiss Wallace then. Both sides of his mouth, between his brows, and every other place those stupid worry lines marred his expression....

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered.

How am I ever going to find the strength to leave him?

I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

I figured out pretty quick that this is a forever thing for me. I think it has been from the very beginning.

A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let...

And if I ever see you or your fake ass Chanel earrings around here again, I will shove my very real, very pointy Jimmy Choos up your prissy little ass. Do I make myself clear?

Are you okay in there?” China asked.Lucia glanced at me, and we both cracked up.

Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.

I’m not the enemy. I’m not the kind of guy who would try to hurt you more when I know you’re already hurting, but I’m someone willing to hear you and understand you. I want...

Chloe helps to calm me. She makes me feel like nothing in this world exist other than the two of us. I love her more than anything and one day she’ll be all mine.

You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You know there’s a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.Now we know, too.

You’re his normality. You’re a part of him, and he is a part of you. That’s what makes this frightening, but that’s what makes it right.

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.

How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?

I’d love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day.

He runs his hands up my back and into my hair, pulling me closer. I lose myself in the feel of his body against mine and the way his soft lips coax mine to life....

If snowflakes are like people, how is anyone lucky enough to find anyone in this world.

Well, honey, it is the south. These debutantes know how to verbally kick anyone’s ass. They learned it from their mamas in the womb.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Monsters never truly go away. They claw their way to the surface again eventually.

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

What a fucking charade.Happy. That shit isn’t in our cards. — Duke

Well sue me for staring. I’d be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

I need to know if you would like it if I put him to ground for you.

Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.

Lilah, I constantly hope that you are going to change your mind, but I know you well enough to know that you won’t.” I just nod at him.

You don’t want to get to know me.

Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her.

He’s the light that guided me to where I am now, out of the darkness, out of despair.

I am enlightened.

We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

Mags, I’m yours. You have nothing to worry about.

I don’t know. I don’t understand how boys think. If I knew that I’d be a millionare.

I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don’t let what some assholes say or do,...

I didn’t have to look at him to know I’d just lost everything I’d ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the...

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

If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won’t find them here. I know a real-life monster.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

You four are a whole other breed.

My heart and my cock seemed to like the idea, and Whitney made me a slave to both, so my wits were outnumbered.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

In no mood for one of her silly games, I snatched it off her and scanned the page. It turned out to be a list of names, all of them boys, and some of whom...