We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in...

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said.

I’ll always love you, no matter what happens, okay?

Christian-like”, Messianic? We should cherem (ban) them from every aspect of Jewish life. And we must strip them of every Jewish privilege!

Sometimes the rues don’t work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

…and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman.” ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Okay, news flash. Jealousy is not something I enjoy. I hadn’t felt it much before. But I’d also never been in love. And I’d never been 3,300 miles away from the girl I loved while...

I’ve decided she’s worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what’s wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes...

When I make love to you,’ he said in a low whisper right by my ear, ‘I want to be able to give you one hundred percent of my attention. Right now, with the Unit...

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Abuse doesn’t define you.

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

I was almost awestruck when I realized that like this meant without a condom. Jack’s vulnerability shone through him in that exact moment like a lighthouse beacon in a raging storm. Somewhere along the way,...

Dear God, Meg, you’re glowing. Sit and tell me about this boy. He let you borrow his jacket? That’s so adorable.” Instead, I came off the high of that day by writing a letter to...

I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!

Who’s driving the boat?”Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.About Alex and Brittany.

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do....

You are. You just don’t know yet.” (Victor)

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings.

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened...

But it hadn’t just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of...

Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation—like my mom choosing Wyatt’s memory over Dad and me.

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

…this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

But that which is called a Flower by any other name would still be as trusting and they were not to change her. In fact, she grew only more Hothouse-gorgeous as the bitterness poured down...

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was…perfect.

That’s not really a compliment.

Sarucha (age 8): “Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!” she exclaimed.

Oh my God, cheese burn!

Carolina removed an old and creased single sheet of paper, yellowed with age, that was now carefully protected in clear, acid-free paper. She handed it to Dara. “This was folded up in a parik-til, in...

This was a Darkness born of fire.

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Believe in love, Believe in yourself, and Believe we make our own destiny.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could. I let us both breathe for a minute, and I perched her on...

Please, touch me, I pray.