There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I’ll close my eyes and remember this. Remember Jackson.

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

She’s kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?” she laughs. “Impressive.

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering

Jeeter?” Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. “Are you awake?” She waited.A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn’t sleep. He always answered her call...

Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too.

The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it’s too late to save her. “I’ve noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear.” She’s been...

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!

I didn’t even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was...

sometimes you need to make a mess.

And now,” Eric yelled into his mircophone, “we’re going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one’s for my girlfriend. We’ve been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true....

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as...

People always clap for the wrong things

Gem, there is an exception to every rule and we are going to be it. I’m not losing you.

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to...

Fury ignited behind my breastbone , a hot glow like coals blooming into something sharp and dangerous. It was the same old crap- someone thinking they can push you around because you’re young, because you’re...

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between...

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes…eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we’re told and follow the rules. We all work hard. Now it’s our turn to watch some demons tremble...

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we’re teenagers.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They’re smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.

Simple and predictable seem pretty darn tantalizing when you’re a witch.Lately, I’ve wished for a lot of things to be the way they were. Gone are my lustfor the macabre and the sweetly sinful fantasies...

So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much of it I have breathed in. Is my throat becoming raw...

But when I close my eyes, I’m more like THIS under the surface: I’m laughing and scheming and dreaming.

That’s plenty of time sir, thank you.

Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he’d call. Dating is a very tricky business.

I’ve never had any summer lovin’. And I’ve never had any school year lovin’, either. I’ve never had a boyfriend. I’ve never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an...

It’s funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He’d say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he’d add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this,...

You know, there’s no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She’s the only...

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

I’m sorry,” I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast...

Two things u just can’t control life and virginity ❤ ❤

I love you, Clary,” he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. “More than I ever–” He broke...

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left...

Without hesitation but with a sense of entitlement, he lifted my hand to his lips. He was gentlemen-like in every way… I don’t know why I wondered if it was an act or for real.

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

All the talking in the world couldn’t even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.