Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.

You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.’ I narrow my eyes. ‘THAT doesn’t say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone’s about to be executed for a mistake YOU...

Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering...

Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.

Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you?

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

Does anyone know how to start a fire?”Blank stares. “So we can’t start a fire,” [Jamie] said. “We can’t fly. We can’t create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine

So what if I don’t learn algebra?”Someday schools will be open again,’ Mom said. ‘Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.”That’s never going to happen,’ Jon said....

I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world...

As good a day to die as any.” He would defend them until his end.

You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It’s like God’s little sprinkler.

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

You act like you’re invincible, but I know deep down you want someone to hold your hand and buy you flowers and look you in the eye and tell you you’re his soul mate. You...

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

If we don’t fight, we’ve already lost. Without hope, without trying, there’s no point.

She’s familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

Are you sure?” Aidan asked, “Gavriel’s still a vampire.” “He warned me about you and about them. He didn’t have to. I’m not going to repay that by-” she hesitated, then frowned. “What did you...

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

When we were little kids, ‘friend’ wasn’t a verb. You didn’t ‘friend’ someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn’t multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.

A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.

My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

Azerowut, I must tend to an urgently urgent business and a business that is urgent most urgently. Watch over my tent with extreme care and care that is caring in the extreme, and do not,...

Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint.

Just to be clear, if I, like, leaned over and whispered your name in your ear, still nothing?

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Seconds ebb and wane. She’s not afraid of her voice anymore, but she’s not entirely sure she trusts it. She’s seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon,...

Inside Ms. Maddox’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

One final time I told myself I wasn’t abducting my little brother.

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

Want to try it out?

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and...

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what...

Did I mention how cute you look in my clothes?”Blushing I just look at what I’m wearing and laugh. “Chicks Dig me? And Sponge Bob boxers?””Chicks do dig me! And Sponge Bob is a great...

Thane – She grasped my face in her hands and pulled me to her, pressing soft kisses on my lips. My arm slid around her waist, and my hand pressed against the small of her...

‘Oh, what had she done?’ He’d startled her; that was the problem. It was all his fault he was lying on the ground, looking rather cherub-like, his blond hair curling about his ears, his bright...

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.

In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same symbols from the mirror frame—what Quinn saw as rolling waves. ~ “The Mirror

Here’s to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes.” – commentary on Castles on the Sand

This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I’m filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I’ve...

Stalked He stalks her waiting for the right time, a single purpose stirring within his mind. His soul longs for that one deep connation, as his body seeks its final redemption. For he is the...

Trauma. It doesn’t eke itself out over time. It doesn’t split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life.Trauma is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction.A tornado of unimaginable...

I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back...

I am enlightened.