Fuck you and the paranormal horse you rode in on.

I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not.

Man, beast, don’t matter. Something aims to kill you, your kin, your friends, you kill it first. You weren’t carrying that poker to protect yourself against no wolf.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still hand-drawn, and the Disney “D” still looked like a backwards “G.” Words like...

You’re not prepared physically or mentally to pick a fight with a thousand-year-old vampire.” he said. ‘He is more cunning and far more ruthless than you.”Maybe I’ll surprise you,’ I said. . .

Suck on this, Edward.

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

I will claim her, and I will protect her, and any who become her enemy? I will destroy.

She slid her fingers into his thick hair and melted while he kissed her as if there were no tomorrow. He tempted, he seduced, he enticed.And she willingly followed.

The wind stilled a bit and he blinked the sand out of his eyes. Before him stood nothing less than the god of the Scrape. It had to be a god. He was huge, muscled,...

You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times…We might actually be able to call it even.

Ouch! I feel bitch slapped– Matt Carter

And Esme remembered in a rush–the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the...

Damien glared at the buxom beauty before him and almost gave in to the urge to strangle her himself.

Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.’ Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Hawke,” he said. “That’s the word you need to be saying.

This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.

But the thought of New Zealand instantly sent her mind to Watson, the possibly-Australian, possibly-Kiwi, definitely paranormal young fellow with videos of dead guys on his phone.

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.

Getting caught is what I do best. It is either a natural talent (which means we can blame my family genes) or a well-hewn craft (in which case we can still blame my parents).

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

So confusing. It was some kind of magic, I knew that for sure, but I didn’t understand the subtleties of it all. You’d have thought all those years of HBO and shit would have prepared...

Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we’re told and follow the rules. We all work hard. Now it’s our turn to watch some demons tremble...

I knew that kind of thinking was paranoid, but after the wacky crap that had happened to me over the last couple of months, these days I’d be suspicious of a jolly white-bearded man in...

Like the end of Terminator 2? Good question. If there’s even a single cell remaining, it can regrow my whole body. But even if there isn’t a single cell left, then an ancient spell I...

There’s death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. …Somebody loves you.

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I’ve completely lost all my wits – or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose.

That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

I’m sure,” Nine said with a laugh.

Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds,” Mace mumbled.

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be.

Little mouse,” a voice said through the keyhole. “Don’t you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat’s delight?

With Angela, everything about Damian died. His hopes, his dreams, his emotions. From that day on, Trey watched with regret, and a silent prayer to his sister, who he hoped looked down upon them. He...

Will you kiss me again?” I flirted sweetly.

Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn.

I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left...

You can’t bluff your way past everyone.””You mean about filleting that guy?” Sera returned.”Who said I was bluffing?

Would you teach me, Seth?’Seth smiled and leaned back in his seat. ‘You do realise, of course, that you have no idea what you ask of me?’ Seth replied after a moment.‘Of course,’ Christopher replied...

You need to know where to go,’ Sanya said.’Yes,”And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.”Yes,’ I said….’There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.”That’s...

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

I am who I am and always shall be.

He got worse as the night wore on. Tessa tried not to think about the wound, tried not to think about what she was going to do if he died and left her alone. Instead,...

I didn’t pretend to comprehend what he meant. I simply closed my eyes and let his arms wrap around me. The warmth that came from his body made me feel at home, as if, somehow,...

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn’t the only one mourning the loss of a dream. “I’m sorry.” ‘You’re not alone, I just wanted...

I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I’m serious when I say never to attack my sister...

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.