Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters....

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve...

They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Just so you’re clear, that wasn’t a pity kiss.

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

I can hear someone whispering, like a mother quieting her small child: shhh…shhh…shhh…a pregnant pause taking shape and growing between each whisper, bringing life to the next series of sounds.They last no more than a...

I’ll kill him.

Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind…about everything that may seem impossible.

Suddenly the bridge was filled with intense warmth, Will had lit the fire. Everyone immediately scurried over to it, with the exception of Scott. Carrie looked back at him, he was sitting with his back...

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring,...

The last piece. I must place it. Give it to me.

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?

What do you do when you’re in a room of vampires and the most dangerous one tells you that youknow too much? You bolt. What did I do? I hyperventilated.

Just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we should grow up! The world’s a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!

We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote’s head. We were heading out to stop Satan’s...

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

He didn’t know Rachel very well, but assumed her behavior would be similar to most women he encountered. As soon as he stepped foot inside she would attack, not allowing him to get in a...

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she’s managed to walk away from.

That’s when I realize how much I don’t want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..

Ok,” he says. “First lesson.”Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. “in the United States,” he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk....

I’m leaning toward the second choice. You are both getting way too weird. And gross.”Cal barked out a laugh and slid his fingers down my arm to entwine with mine. His touch, and Emma’s comments,...

There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when...

Eugene’s got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he’s thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.

Cuando dos almas están destinadas a estar juntas, por más que tropiecen siempre lograrán encontrarse.

N-no doubt.” I smirked again.

She opens her eyes as the fury continues, pinning me with her glare. Her gaze reached into my soul as I spin the music back to the simple melody at its core—our melody. A moment...

But I will stand.

The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

He had a face made for magazine covers. Could someone say GQ model? That razor sharp jaw and those angular features caught the light just right. If she’d had a camera she wouldn’t mind snapping...

You okay?

’Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin.

You’re saying everything I want to hear, but I don’t know if I can trust it.

Dust motes swirled in the air like tiny orbs of rainbows.

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

My name on his lips is a symphony. How can two simple beats of basic human language engulf me so completely? We stare at each other for a mini infinity. I’m terrified of speaking and...

Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it’s horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing

We’re enveloped in pitch black. “Wait here,” I whisper.”Are you getting your ax?””Handcuffs.””Kinky. But, okay, I’ll try it.

You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

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...

Your scare tactics are useless on me, Thane. My people have needs of their own, and they don’t include being locked up in an underground cavern by a bunch of overgrown mosquitoes.

Lynetta bared her wickedly sharp pointed canines and hissed. Her long black hair hung wildly to her hips, tangled and teased by the breeze. She was petite like me but as strong as a male...

There was really way too much hotness going on back there.

If I can face a street full of rabid zombies, I can tell a boy I like him. Right?

Absently, Quinn reached for the sheet to replace it over the aged mirror, but the back of his hand brushed against the cold surface and a strange shiver ran up his arm and down his...

Put him in there and chain him up,” he ordered curtly. “Yes, that chain, you fool – do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I’m tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood!...