The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.

You really need to get out more. Where’d you glean that interesting nugget? The desperate men’s journal perhaps?

You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can’t run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.

Most of the girls I’ve met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I’ve dated; I’m seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.

I’m afraid you’ll have to ask somebody else for that because if you die before me I won’t survive it.” He kissed the tip of my nose. I gazed at him with so much love...

Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity.

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks,...

Oh, oh. My heart starts that quivering, fluttering thing it does whenever he hints at his desire for me. Lacing his fingers through mine, he moves to close the gap between us. I know he’s...

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me.

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

While I AM sure of what I want, I’m equally unsure of how to attain it.

A miracle came in the form of a doctor whom her mother knew. He put her in a roasting pan and placed her above a fire to keep her warm.

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

Everything around her was in a fog; the intense light that always shone in his aqua blue eyes was the only thing in focus, but it was suddenly unknown… different… almost embarrassing.

But you’re my future. So if it’s a choice, I choose you.

I can feel that I’m in a dream, but I can’t wake myself up.

It’s the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.

They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny...

It always will be.

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

I’m not the damsel in distress. I’m the villain. It’s only a matter of time before he realizes this.

It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I wouldn’t be able to bare it. Forgiveness would be out of the question; beyond my ability. I would never...

I am unbelievably nervous.It is most unlike me.This girl is really messing with my mojo.

His room was dark until he switched on his desk lamp. I sat on the floor next to his bed and watched him counting clothes and considering shoes. He seemed so boyish right then—like he...

Right now, you and me? This feels like fate, if fate can be felt.

Maybe it just happened.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

He sees me when I’m lying. He hears me when I flirt.

I’m following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can’t contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

If only I had the speed that my alien boyfriend had, then I could just zip through my senior year and forget about distance and mom’s annoyingly great sense of hearing. But when said alien...

Ari looks fiercely resolute. It’s the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

Just let it out.

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

Everything changed the moment I found you. I changed.

Ace let out a deep breath, squeezing my hand and then letting go. “I know how hard this all is for you and I’m sorry that I haven’t been more receptive. I promise from now...

I can feel Ari’s mounting excitement the farther we walk. She’s bouncing up and down like a kangaroo on speed. I feel the bulk of the box pressing against my leg as we walk, and...

I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way.

I think we’re moving at the pace we were set to move in. That, not everyone lives to the same expectations in life and love. And we can only hope that the love we feel...

For the first time, with complete clarity and absolute conviction, I know I love him entirely with all that I have, everything I am, and who I’m going to be. Of course, I’ve told him...

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don’t even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don’t even have...

Gil’s penchant for blondes is world-renowned.

I’m not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.

They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a...

We made a pact the day you left for Novo—I know you don’t remember that, but I do—and I’m holding fast to our promise. To never give up hope. And I have hope, because I...

It’d felt good to be part of an “us,” with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

Ari is beautiful beyond comparison, and she has my heart and my soul for eternity. I thought I made that abundantly clear last night, but it appears I have further work to do.

I engage in subtle stalking. That’s entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

I love you when you’re happy. I love you when you’re sad. I love you if you’re angry,And I love you if you’re bad. No matter how you feel, I love you all the time.Oh...