I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.

Am I more afraidOf taking a chance andlearning I’m somebodyI don’t know, or of risking new territory,only to find I’m the sameold me? There is comfortin the tried and true.Breaking groundmight uncover a sinkhole,one impossible...

I think it’s time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

You can’t flirt with me during a lockdown. My eyes narrow. It’s unethical.

I look away, but we’ve caught each other. And I know this wasn’t just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

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...

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...

Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you’ll fall off.

Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.

That could be very tiring indeed.

Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?

I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

When they had hurried to the train station with their violin cases, they had drawn almost as many stares as they would on any normal day when their hair was to their knees and sheeting...

You may think the thing dangling between a guy’s legs is his most sensitive part, but it’s not. It’s his precious ego. Never forget that, Allie.

I’m enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.

Hello, dinner. It’s me, I’m starving. And I know where you live.

It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. It’s one of my favorite books.”Hot and smart. And apparently he was a real-life boy.

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.