There’s a word for an author who doesn’t give up… published.

A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind,...

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

My god, they’re everywhere.

New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my...

She’d spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened–apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn’t a...

Because this is the beginning, not the end.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won’t be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How’s that strike you?

You’re only as old as you feel.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

I can’t stop thinking about what he felt like against my body, against my lips. I can’t remember anything else, anything before that. And I realize in this moment that I’ve finally done it. That...

Wait,” I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. “Where are you going?””To read?”But I don’t want you to. “But I need to go home,” I said, my...

I bought you love poetry! ‘I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'” I blink at him. “Neruda. I starred the passage. God,” he moans. “Why didn’t...

The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.

Before I could flinch, he planted his warm lips against mine, wrapping his arms around my waist. I didn’t know what to do with my hands. I thought about putting them in his hair, stopping...

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I...

Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction. I can only form one clear thought. This is no place for a girl on fire.

‘I didn’t give you a parting kiss.’ I tried to ignore the audience of witches and concentrate on the kiss. Dominic jumped right in and helped me with a sexy lingering sizzling hot kiss. By...

All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true.

I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.

There are a lot of reasons why everyone in the known universe has a boyfriend except for me. I can list the top five on command, just in case anyone’s ever interested. No one ever...

As we pass the mirror in the bedroom, my attention is drawn to the lovely couple in the reflection. There is a man, tall with broad shoulders. His red hair cut short. He has nothing...

Be careful,” Aidan called from the bed. “You don’t know what he might do.” “We all know what you’d do,though, don’t we?”-Gavriel, Tana, and Aidan-page 22-chapter 3

I know I’m not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside–stronger than I ever realized.

Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear…Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to a safe place…I should know.”- Extract from The...

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath…He’s always,always in my...

I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll...

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn’t be held, only borrowed for a time.

I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

This is the time and these are the people and I’d give my right arm to be a light, a comfort, to them. I know you would, too. In whatever form it takes. Use these...

The plot thickens!” Gabby exclaimed for comedic relief.

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that’s what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.

Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.””That sounds good.”Which it did. But even if she’d said...

The panther prowled around me in a loose, wide circle. Its mouth turned down, almost in a pout, and it seemed disappointed that I wasn’t going to run away. Or scream, at the very least....

What’s a slut?” I ask him.”A girl who puts out too easily.””Puts out what?” I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don’t understand what Iwan wouldn’t like about that.”Puts out, you know…” His face, already...

but she had a secret and that was uncontrollable hair. She knew that most girls complained about their hair, in fact hers looked perfect. She loved her uncontrollable soft long blond hair, it was only...

I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as...

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

But it wasn’t anyone! … What could I say I was a freak – an Empty.

No,” she breathes. The smell of her turns to spice, sharp and warm, and I know I’m sensing her now, even through the block in the house.We stand like that for an eternity, still as...

I had never seen the view at this time before, at the very pinnacle of night when sunset was far behind us and dawn had not yet risen rosy-fingered from the horizon. The night was...

Crossing the small wooden bridge, just past the rubble, Gabe ducked off to the left and swooped underneath into hiding. Once sure he was secure, and could not be seen by those that passed overhead,...

“You are sitting in my chair, my lord.” She said the words very civilly, she thought. Although he quirked a brow and lowered his chin as if giving her one of those looks. Like really?...

I’m hideous””You could never be hideous””Forget it” I wanted this conversation over.”I can’t forget it,” Gran said, not giving up so easily. “I don’t like to hear you talk about yourself that way. Your scars...

I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

Life, Jersey Girl, sometimes pauses. It stops. Sometimes we don’t even realize how everything around us is moving so quickly while we’re standing in the middle of it, allowing it to pass us by. Most...

I don’t like seeing myself on camera.” But that’s not it–that sounds shallow, like I’m worried I’ll look fat or something. “It’s like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are...

I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.