The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac–you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Some stories aren’t meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever...

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up...

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

Either I’m changing very quickly, and everything is standing still, or I’m the one standing still and everything is changing around me. Either way, I’m out of joint with the world.

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and...

My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn’t do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful. Too thoughtful, my friends said. And all I thought about was myths and...

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

Snow.

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

OMG. He’s a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He’s the path/through the dark woods, the light on the page, a postcard/from the castle and a one-way ticket...

Stand still while I yell at you.

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

Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white...

You deserved it.

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

Lirralei was a girl of storm–winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.

Tomorrow, I need you to die.

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

And, they would still be alive today…If they hadn’t died, that is

Probably not, but we can pretend.