Why, hell no, I cannot.” I didn’t remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice.

Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.

No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

The Professor doesn’t have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I’d even settle for being called Chard.

For several moments, Mary couldn’t hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile.” (Victor)

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!” He became animated at this point, “No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up with boys. I would’ve never known if I hadn’t gone to the bathroom...

I like her just fine, but you should watch yourself around her. Tennyson is given to obsession, and her obsessions tend to run toward trouble. It’s kind of a Wyoming thing to push the whole...

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

You don’t think you’re a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn’t exist.

I suspect I am a hooligan.

Imagine,” she said, after registering, “a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it’ll be sexy.” “You’ll be so easy,” Rashmi said. “Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti?...

I was a wildflower that would continue to grow in the most unexpected weather.

Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument of gypsies, with a...

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the...

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it’s during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

He’d promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He’d said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had...

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

Love is blind; people aren’t.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14

No, Kramisha, he’s not black. He’s a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

There’s no way I would forget that.

Don’t get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can’t...

You can’t keep her.”I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

I’m sorry,” I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast...

He was drop-dead gorgeous and I, well I was just … dead.” (Tera Hightower, Dead Chick Walking)

I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

When you touch a man’s body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man’s heart he will remember it forever.

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his...

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for...

There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

His room was dark until he switched on his desk lamp. I sat on the floor next to his bed and watched him counting clothes and considering shoes. He seemed so boyish right then—like he...

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect.

Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin’ in your house, I’d kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.

Angelica rolled the wedding band between her finger and thumb. “It’s terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.

But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can’t ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that...

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or...