I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and arced high in the air until it slammed against the side...

There’s a light pulsing somewhere, its soft, amber glow gently seeping into the delicate skin covering my eyes, pooling in the tiny gullies on either side of my nose. My body feels heavy, burdened with...

This is a battle trophy and nothing to be ashamed of. Every one of your scars makes you more beautiful to me.

I’m serious, Mar, I don’t know how to act around him now. I can’t be nice, because he’ll hate that. But I can’t be mean just to be nice.””You really need medication.””I’m in a quandary....

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

And now I would like the ERA passed, please. Also, this lipstick is fuckin’ killer.

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock...

You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you.”My tongue warred with my mind. “Today,” I whispered.Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. “Today. Tonight. Tomorrow....

Your powers of observation are formidable,” Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will...

She’s not close enough. She’ll never be close enough…

If you continue to threaten us, I will act upon my threat.’ I felt silly using the precise language of bargaining dictators and gangsters, but they seemed to take it seriously. Stickings’ smirk almost completely...

He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not about to lose.

For now, he wanted to help Ena escape the dragon fae king’s wrath. As soon as Prince Grotto learned what she was about to do in the worst way. The reason she was in this...

It’s not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love…that’s what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the...

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

We were the new people here. We weren’t part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

My love life couldn’t be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls’ boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

please,Tana,please.’ -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to...

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.

Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can’t explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and we don’t always have a reason why. Our job is to try and...

Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

I felt your sorrow before I even knew something was wrong. It hit me like a freight train of boulders. You made the sky rain fireballs with red lightning. Need I say more?

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the “Adam Project.

I’ll do it.”

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.

I don’t like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don’t think I even breathe when we’re not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it’s been like sixty hours...

Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.

What do you want?”To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

But in that moment, I didn’t want to be trusted. I wanted something far more primal. I stretched up on my tiptoes and leaned in. I closed my eyes as his scent overcame me. When...

I’m Dr. Canton. As you know, most of the population has been wiped out by an unknown virus. Now that an acceptable waiting period has passed since the last known case, it’s time for you...

Go ahead and try. I’ll attempt to loosen up. Her muscles tightened when I took her hand in mine. “Do you know any self-hypnosis?””I guess I’m tensing too much.” She took several deep calming breaths...

Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline “Je suis desole, mon amour.

Can I get back in your bed now?

The frame of the mirror was a deep mahogany and carved with an intricate design of what appeared in the dim light to be leaves and vines. The mirror’s surface was clouded with dust and...

He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal.I can’t stop myself. “Ben,” I call. And I’m not even embarrassed about how helpless my voice sounds.Don’t go.”I’ll come back for you.” He takes another step...

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message – And Lo! There shall...

Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store…

LAST YEAR, Honesty and I still talked, Laughed, Planned weekend activities together. Last year, I used to have friends, Speak, Live. Last year, Honesty lived, Loved, Laughed. But now— Now I live with the knowledge...

Well, you should have a chat with your boyfriend, clarify your desires. Hate to break the news, but, uh, he’s cheatin’ on you. Tell him I said my dog kisses better than him and he...