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...

That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull...

A conscience can be a dangerous thing

I’m still dropping dishes thinking in slow motion about the GPS woman in Mom’s car. I imagine her beckoning me from outside the kitchen window illuminated like some robot-angel calling me forth to the Lexus...

You could start a fire with the heat between you two.””You’re mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

You’re the most incredible girl I’ve ever known. You’re gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don’t...

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there’s room for RunningDon’t do anything that can’t be a Game

“Take it easy, Jewels,” Sebastian said, trying to sound playful, but worry was written all over his face. “Why can’t you ever call me by my real name?” “Well, at least I know you’re coherent-...

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are,” Jackaby revised.

I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.

A human wasn’t an acceptable boyfriend for a witch; nor would a human wish to date a witch. The two would never in a million light years be interested in each other. Then, again, unwritten...

Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

I just don’t want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

When the mind is free, magic happens.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other – made up – people’s problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

My heart thrashes in time with my feet pounding across the cold, hard ground. I can’t run any faster, longer, and yet I must. My life and my family’s survival depends on it.

I don’t want to be a vampire’ she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father’s old globe. But now he saw that it was anything but featureless;...

Every time I had things straight in my head abouthim, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn’t have feelings for him seemed redundant.

The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything...

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

But there is one cool thingabout having a weirdo mother.She works so hard at rememberingwhere she left herselfshe doesn’t have timeto work on me.

Then I suggest you read a little more so you can find the word you’re looking for.” He hid his chuckle behind a fist.

I needed out. The Jeep wasn’t fast enough. I shut it down, grabbed the keys and started running like a bear was at my heels. I couldn’t even see Henry anymore through my tears so...

Okay, I deserved that,” I admitted.

Because here’s a news flash: You might’ve wanted to shelter me, but there’s nowhere you can hide me that’ll keep me safe from what’s inside my head.

Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I’d needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved...

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you’re lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It’s the same with books.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

If the Collective was an ants’ nest then Jilly was not only the walls of the nest but also its army, whereas Jeanie was the ants which were scouts sent out to discover what the...

Noah’s eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the...

I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then — dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways...

There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It’s a small one, only about four feet tall: a low-level creeper. I flick my gaze over the spot like I...

It didn’t feel like the Fates were looking over me that day. When I glanced up, I couldn’t see destiny’s threads tangling in the sky like the silk of a giant spider’s web, woven by...

Gabe realized he was standing there alone, with a goofy smile on his face. Limping inside, he closed the door behind him, her words still lingering in his mind. Gabe wanted more than anything to...

Suddenly, I can’t move. I can’t speak. I am set in stone, but it’s a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

They tried not to stare, but they couldn’t keep their eyes away. I was a freak now. I made people uncomfortable and not necessarily because of my scars-but because what my scars represented. Danger, fear,...

And then there was an explosion.

You know how there’s that one person who stumbles into your life and you instantly have a connection with them? Someone who’s a genuinely good person. Someone you just know you can build a great...

If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.

As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she’d fit in my arms. ~Ren

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She’d never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be...

I also told you when I made you my bride that I would not count the days if you would promise me the same. I don’t intend to start now, love. You’re my wife, yesterday,...

Are you coming with us?”He looked down at me, his eyes a cool mint green. He seemed to have calmed down since Cadan left. “If you wish.””I would feel better if you were close,” I...