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.

Here’s to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes.” – commentary on Castles on the Sand

This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I’m filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I’ve...

Stalked He stalks her waiting for the right time, a single purpose stirring within his mind. His soul longs for that one deep connation, as his body seeks its final redemption. For he is the...

Trauma. It doesn’t eke itself out over time. It doesn’t split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life.Trauma is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction.A tornado of unimaginable...

I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back...

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...

The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.

I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics.

There aren’t many berry bushes where I’m from.””And just where would that be?”His hand paused on a berry like it was a monumental decision whether to pluck it or not. He finally pulled and explained...

Calling a book “Young Adult” is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But...

Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what’s comfortable and easy. I’ll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I...

I can do whatever I wish. That’s the benefit of being me.” ~ Belial

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and...

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what...

Did I mention how cute you look in my clothes?”Blushing I just look at what I’m wearing and laugh. “Chicks Dig me? And Sponge Bob boxers?””Chicks do dig me! And Sponge Bob is a great...

Thane – She grasped my face in her hands and pulled me to her, pressing soft kisses on my lips. My arm slid around her waist, and my hand pressed against the small of her...

‘Oh, what had she done?’ He’d startled her; that was the problem. It was all his fault he was lying on the ground, looking rather cherub-like, his blond hair curling about his ears, his bright...

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.

In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same symbols from the mirror frame—what Quinn saw as rolling waves. ~ “The Mirror

Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they’re still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree.

On Algebra – “We’re a month into it, and I’m planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I’m...

Sometimes,you don’t wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like.” Marisol

I wiggle my eyebrows. ‘Sorry, Evan, I can’t make out with you while the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn’t want us to find out?

Who the hell are you?

So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much of it I have breathed in. Is my throat becoming raw...

Loyal,” he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town.

Now you’re an adult, Katya!” he’d said, picking her up under the armpits like he’d been doing since she’d been born.

Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

It’s funny how life moves in a complete circle sometimes. There might be lots of bumps in the road and maybe even a few cliffs, but it’s a journey, and sometimes it can bring you...

She feels him scoot closer, the heat of him radiating off his chest and absorbing into her skin. His legs straddle her from behind, and he places delicate kisses along her shoulder, her back, the...

The waiter repeated, “The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you’d enjoy them. They are called Secrets.

Violet: “You’re an asshole.” Onyx: “Thank you, it’s something that took an eternity to perfect.

It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood...

Elijah blinked in dazzling sunlight and took a deep breath. The sweet-pepper scent of meadow grass told him immediately where he was. Winded, he skidded to a halt as the portal spat him out. Above...

I hate you,” I muttered.Noah smiled wider. “I know.

‎”I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (…) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a...

I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition.

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.