Please, Noah, I don’t want to do this wrong. Tell me how to make you feel good.”He shifted so that his body rested beside mine, his leg and arm still draped over me. I felt...

Noah held my hand and my bag as he escorted me to the third floor – the Women’s Pavilion. The elevator bell rang and the doors opened. “Jesus, Echo, circulation in my hand would be...

Noah?”A welcome voice – not my mother’s, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I...

You scared the shit out of me last night, so forgive me if I don’t want to hear fine as an answer.”I rubbed my eyes, hoping it would keep the burning tears away. The warm...

Wait.” I began to pull off his jacket. “You forgot this.””Keep it,” he said without looking back. “I’ll get it from you on Monday. When we discuss tutoring.”And Noah Hutchins – girl-using stoner boy and...

Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.

I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don’t live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we’re not together.””And what is that?” prodded the stout man....

I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

Come here, baby.” And with my words, Echo leaned into me soft, pliant, broken. “You’re not alone,” I whispered into her hair as I cradled her in my arms. “You’re not alone, because you have...

Take it all in. Sit back and watch and listen and hear all the hate that’s being thrown at us and remember every person that’s kicking you when you’re down, because next year it ain’t...

You know a lot about math,” I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along the lines of “Hey, you have hair and it’s red and curly.” Real...

Then, yes, Shea, I would love to be your girlfriend.

Not sure how I felt about Antonio and Echo, I linked my fingers with hers. Antonio cocked a surprised eyebrow. Damn straight, bro. I just marked my territory.

Noah drew me closer to him. “It’s okay. I’ve got you.

I’ve got you. I swear to God, I’ve got you,” said Noah. “Stay with me, Echo.”I wanted to. I wanted to stay with him, but the shouting and screams and glass breaking in my mind...

Whoever thought up the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow founder’ was an idiot.Absence makes a bitch go crazy. -Elli, While Shea is Away

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms.” I didn’t need to see him to know he wore a smile. “Stop laughing,” I said, my cheeks hot with humiliation. “Get me down.””Jump.””What?””I’ll catch you.””Are...

Thanks, you guys.” Fiona smiled. “I haven’t been with anyone since Jackson and I split. I hate to act like such a hoochie mama, but—“”Hey. There’s a little hoochie mama in all of us,” Charli...

There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Some people snort cocaine. I snort powdered love. It’s like powdered sugar, only sweeter.

Not everything. And if I want to like you, Braith of the Darkness, I get to like you. Whether you want me to or not.

The other is Layney Logan.

I think that can be arranged.

Dear J.,I want to explain something.After my dad set me on fire…Well…He died in jail while I was in the hospital getting skin grafts. And I never got to tell him how much he hurt...

Jonquil went by with a full plate of food, and Petunia reached out and tried to snag a small cream puff from it. Jonquil lifted it over Petunia’s head before she could, and clucked her...

Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it.

And suddenly I got what the big deal was about kissing. How someone could suck on your bottom lip and make you come completely undone. That someone stroking the hair back from your face could...

You’ve got a deep core of sweetness that’s quite incorruptible.

My flight arrives at eight in the morning,” he mentioned casually. “Any chance you can come and get me?”…”Pick you up from the airport? That seems hardcore, Ty. Normally, I’m married to a guy for...

You don’t even like me, remember?” That’s what I try to say. What actually comes out of my mouth is closer to a baby’s first attempt at babbling. “Shh.” He runs his fingertips along my...

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled.And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

He paused and let out a little sigh. Then I’m saying it wrong, because it has everything to do with you. I want what Hades and Persephone had, and I can’t do it without you....

No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren’t here with me because no, nothing happened. I could see on your face that something was wrong, so I didn’t do it. But now you need...

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

He continued to stare out the window. “I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can’t walk away from you.

Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.

She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey.

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

Just because fate finds us our perfect match doesn’t mean it’s always easy and we don’t have to work at it. Anything worth having takes fighting for sometimes.”- Victor Marius

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his...

I,uh…” Her face was so hot she thought it would melt onto the floor. Oh you idiot. “My monthly cycles finally came back!”His face suddenly matched hers and he stepped away, dragging his hand through...

Are you following me?” she asks, but doesn’t meet my gaze.”Yeah,” I say.”Why?”I give her the only honest and true answer I have. “You’re where I want to be.

I want to fall asleep next to you every night even when you’re cranky. I want to wake up next to you every morning even when I’m grumpy. I love the fact that when you...

Staring into his eyes, she noticed a thin circle of gray around the green. A SILVER LINING, she thought.

I bet I’ve noticed features on you that you have yet to distort in your imagination or discover. Remember how much I stared haha I was enamored with the simple things about you, so I...

Patch’s eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. “I’m going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and...