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.

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. “Sorry. I-I didn’t mean to. I just- I’ve been lying here...

He said that if I ever hurt you, he’d find me and kill me. I told him that if I ever hurt you, I’d want him to.” – Aiden MacRae

He smiled. “we go inside.””I’m going to get tetanus in there.” I grumbled.”Don’t go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you’ll be fine.””You’re an ass.

Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.

Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside.

You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County...

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren’t equal.

I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night....

I recognized Meg’s swirly handwriting and crooked my index finger into the side of the envelope to rip it open. There was no letter. Just a picture. A picture of Meg holding a picture of...

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game...

He smiles at her before ever opening his eyes. The innocence in his face ensnares. Wraps her heart in a cocoon.They did this to him. The Society. Constructed that smile with malicious expectations. Now she...

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still,...

Rourk didn’t even know her name, but he knew he’d never seen anyone so magnificent in his life. Her wavy hair glistened in the sunlight. She had a delicate, round face with large, blue-green eyes...

Chaol,” he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian’s eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. “Treat her well.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

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

I have two rules I follow religiously:#1. Don’t sweat the small stuff.#2. It’s all small stuff.

You can never trust a Vampire, child.

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn’t.

Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.

That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange’s detective boss.)

Are you?” I said. “Gay, I mean?” -I hoped he wasn’t offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.”No,” he said. “I thought I was for about a...

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn’t know...

We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.

We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring, positive and sensible response to the former is a united front...

You sure you’re not just trying to get into my pants?” I joked, but I was already trying to figure out what one wears to a detox session in her boyfriend’s dungeon-like bedroom.

I have to get off this elevator.I can’t ride with him, Can’t look at him, Can’t be this close to him. Can’t, Can’t, can’t.

Note to self: don’t throw things at girls.

Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.

…The man who stood before her was taller and stranger than anyone she had ever encountered. His unkempt hair was a long dark brown, partially braided and twisted around twigs, the tips of his pointed...

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and...

I couldn’t stop crying because it was so intimate, in that way I always thought being physical with him would feel. If someone had walked in they might have thought Henry was barely touching me....

He whom the gods love dies young.

I’m sorry,” he says. No two words were ever truer.Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She’s the flaw in the paragon of...

Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which...