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...

There’s a part of me that recognizes him on a cellular level, a part that seeks his comfort and solace, that feels more than comfortable in his arms. And when he stares at me with...

Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core… but...

I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

Mel rolled her eyes. “You can’t live your life based on ‘what-ifs,’ Liv. And change is inevitable. It’s the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and...

An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don’t know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government’s cerebral pilfering.

I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I’m only capable of loving you. You’re tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper...

Sure looks like that’s working out well for you,” I say, piercing him with a scornful look.

There are many other words I could think of to describe you but I’m not really good at flattery.

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.

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.