He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

Life’s messy,” he agreed. “But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it’s all falling apart.

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

I never want to leave you.” I didn’t respond- not because I couldn’t find the words, but because there weren’t any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is...

Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. It had already left the building.

Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core… but...

Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging,even when I wasn’t conscious of it. Even when I wasn’t thinking about it.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That’s who I was pretending to be a minute ago – Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past....

Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.

I didn’t want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

Uri stood staring at him, casually looking Gabe’s body up and down before saying with a sly grin, “Well hello to you too, sexy. Does your wife know about this?” Uri then motioned with a...

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we’ll just...

That’s what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you’re worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a...

The obvious,” Noah goes on, a little out of breath, “being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I’m not as tough as I look.””That’s OK,” I tell him. “I’m way...

I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one,” I said to the shadows inside.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of...

We are in a boy recession,” Eugene repeats. “There’s been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I’m gonna take advantage of it.

You said you were allowed to lose it,’ some part of her reminded herself. ‘Not yet, not yet.

But judgment before proven can eat one up with anger. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Trust someone.

Darkness is a defining characteristic of Rotters. But it’s worthy to remember that darkness is just that—it’s dark—and what is being concealed in the dark is not just the horrible and fearsome, it’s also the...

Is there a house up there? You’re not a sylph or something that really does live wild, are you?

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

I’ve become remarkably good at blocking impossibly bizarre happenings from my consciousness. Denial can be a beautiful thing.

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it…

Love? Nikolas?

The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could. I let us both breathe for a minute, and I perched her on...

Only hurts when I breathe or blink or exist, if I’m being honest.

Shut up.

I dropped my bag to the floor and the sound echoed throughout the house. No one shouted, “who’s home?” or “Cassie? Is that you?”. Instead the house gobbled up the sound as if it didn’t...

I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin’ insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face...

I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams,then I leave and search for you until I die.When I come back,I live to remember,I live to find you

It was a musty sweet smell. “Is this plague city?

A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear…

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

Unless I was delirious from my injury, we had just been captured by vampires.Who were they, and what did they intend to do with the rest of us?

‘Nope, not Debby Demint!’ His lips curved up while his eyes sparkled with amusement. ‘You haven’t even seen her. All the guys make fools of themselves over her.’ ‘There’s only one who I desire to...

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark...

N-not much. You know, reanimated corpses chasing me on a cruise ship. Same old.

Yeah, well, maybe it’s time to let another man have it, you think?” he teased. ~ “The Mirror

How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are...

You can’t screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That’s just not the way it works.

Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should...

I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist.

If to be the son of him who served his country in time of peril, be that which you call noble, then I am of the noblest extraction, but if from pampered lord and vicious...