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.

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

But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I’m nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be...

Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of...

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that...

Absolutely. No more pretending!

Then I flipped my hair across his face and said, “Do you like my hair, baby? It’s Winterfresh, like a mountain spring.

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters....

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve...

They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Just so you’re clear, that wasn’t a pity kiss.

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

I can hear someone whispering, like a mother quieting her small child: shhh…shhh…shhh…a pregnant pause taking shape and growing between each whisper, bringing life to the next series of sounds.They last no more than a...

I’ll kill him.

Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind…about everything that may seem impossible.

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I...

Alan: “I had terrible stage fright.”Sin: “I’m not familiar with the concept of ‘stage fright.'”A: “It’s pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience,...

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. – Persian proverb

He shakes his head and his mouth is quirked at one corner. I can’t tell if he thinks I am sort of amusing or truly pathetic. It’s especially hard to tell because we are both...

She had gone through the veil and returned to Earth. But the veil only opens one way.

Cat’s heated gaze meets mine, and she smiles. Another piece of my heart is hers.

Everyone has to die at some point, so the thought of passing on together while holding hands with my one true love has always sounded like an amazing fairy tale. It reminds me of the...

You better hope she doesn’t say a word,” Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri’s nose.Uri grabbed the finger laughing, “What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy...

Well, than that solves it. I’m not a faery, so I’ll just go back to sleep, and you won’t come to see me anymore.” It nearly killed her to say it even in a dream.”I...

I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn’t even have to go to school during your period. You’d just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

This thing we have, it hurts, he continued. But the pain is almost sweet because it means YOU happened. We happened. And I can’t regret that, no matter how little or how long I get...

I’m leaning toward the second choice. You are both getting way too weird. And gross.”Cal barked out a laugh and slid his fingers down my arm to entwine with mine. His touch, and Emma’s comments,...

There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when...

Eugene’s got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he’s thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...