Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

You smell good,” he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. “Really?” “Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.

I trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. “Please stop apologizing, Etienne.””Say my name again,” he whispers.I close my eyes and lean forward. “Etienne.”He takes my hands into his. Those...

The salty, slightly stagnant smell of the marsh filled my nose. On the other side of the bed, a French door opened to what looked like the balcony. The curtain was drawn but a silhouette...

Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it.” “Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced

Even if I did feel bad for Darian, I wouldn’t admit it. Siding with anyone who violates The Protectorate would make me Noncompliant. That would make me almost as corrupt as him. To side with...

People need hope Michael, as much as they need a leader. You and Gabe are the answer to both of those things. You’ll lead the people of earth to victory and Gabe will give them...

I guess I’ll wake up tomorrow and find I’m not in Kansas anymore.””You’re from Kansas?” Most of Kansas was not a lion fae territory. She’d heard the cobra fae loved to go there, however.

Okay, listen, I don’t know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn’t born yesterday so I am...

That’s when I realized it. I liked this girl. A lot. I liked her super-moist double chocolate chip cupcakes. I liked how kind and patient she was with the guests, the way her forehead crinkled...

They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a...

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a start—and that was all that mattered.

O, het was makkelijk om dingen op te geven en te beweren dat je vrij van de wereld was, gemakkelijk om kleine irritaties te vergeven en jezelf op de borst te kloppen, omdat je je...

To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.

The first thing anybody tells you about this business is to say what makes you unique and different, but I couldn’t and the very idea of it never sat well with me and after much...

Everything…affects everything

When we were little kids, ‘friend’ wasn’t a verb. You didn’t ‘friend’ someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn’t multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.

A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.

My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

Azerowut, I must tend to an urgently urgent business and a business that is urgent most urgently. Watch over my tent with extreme care and care that is caring in the extreme, and do not,...

Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint.

Just to be clear, if I, like, leaned over and whispered your name in your ear, still nothing?

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Seconds ebb and wane. She’s not afraid of her voice anymore, but she’s not entirely sure she trusts it. She’s seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon,...

Inside Ms. Maddox’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

One final time I told myself I wasn’t abducting my little brother.

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

Want to try it out?

Does anyone know how to start a fire?”Blank stares. “So we can’t start a fire,” [Jamie] said. “We can’t fly. We can’t create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine

So what if I don’t learn algebra?”Someday schools will be open again,’ Mom said. ‘Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.”That’s never going to happen,’ Jon said....

I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world...

As good a day to die as any.” He would defend them until his end.

You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It’s like God’s little sprinkler.

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

You act like you’re invincible, but I know deep down you want someone to hold your hand and buy you flowers and look you in the eye and tell you you’re his soul mate. You...

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

If we don’t fight, we’ve already lost. Without hope, without trying, there’s no point.

She’s familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

Are you sure?” Aidan asked, “Gavriel’s still a vampire.” “He warned me about you and about them. He didn’t have to. I’m not going to repay that by-” she hesitated, then frowned. “What did you...

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

I am enlightened.

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there’s anything stupider than buddy lists, it’s lol. if anyone ever uses lol...

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck… sweet. The feel of lips on my own… forbidden.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

This is the best night of my life,” Raffy says, crying.”Raffy, half our House has burnt down,” I say wearily. “We don’t have a kitchen.””Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?” she asks....

The dying bees, the Antarctic melt, the mountains of old tires, the incessant toxic belch of factories that make Batman bobbleheads for Happy Meals. Off-gassing couches! Cancerous tinned tomatoes! Imprisoned killer whales! Our breastmilk is...