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 like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the...

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The...

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

I’m bein’ tortured.

A stream of light shot out of her lips, it wasn’t blinding though, it was luminescent. It stopped abruptly and Aaron saw the light leave her eyes before she fell, and he swept in to...

His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming....

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we’re going to start thinking...

Kavanagh has a smart mouth.

I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken...

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it...

Congratulations,” she said. “You win.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did.”I frowned, “What’s that?””Homework.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can’t, because I’m Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

And it is a strange thing about love… it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

character isn’t something you talk about; it’s something you show through your actions—through your every day habits.

I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To...

Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.~Crispin.~

Do not forget about the butterflies.

If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not...

It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this...

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to...

Carrie, please.

You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.

I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

All I do when we’re apart is think about you, and all I when we’re together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself....

I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person,” ~Emily

Where there is light, there is a way out of the darkness

You know-portraits are odd things.” “How do you figure?” I asked. “Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait...

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Oh, people will always find a way to buy chocolate, Elliot. Chocolate is forever.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

No. No, you can’t.

Happy Birthday” sash across my chest that my best friend, Claire, had always insisted I wear for my special day, but this is not that day. My twentieth birthday was over a month ago, on...

And now I realize Lindsay’s not fearless. She’s terrified. She’s terrified that people will find out she’s faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she’s just floundering like the...

We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything....

But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches...

Querida, I always want to kiss you.

Aaron was beside himself grabbing his keys and running out of his office leaving everyone staring at him. He heard Becca call his name but he didn’t have the time, Nia needed him and he...

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

When you stop being owned by your emotions you’ll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy.

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.