She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks and...

He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

You’ll understand someday, James.

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence… but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in...

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

Why?” I whispered. “Why do you love me?” “God told me to,” she said softly. “He told me that you were the one.” “When?” “In preschool – when you freaked out just because I got...

But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.

Lollypop…the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks…

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the...

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than ‘see you tomorrow?

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?””Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat...

You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and tingly? When you feel just for a second like a baby in a womb… that nothing...

The guys can’t take their eyes off Colleen… one of them… probably sees her just like I do, she’s the gatekeeper to another world.