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.

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....

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

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!

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...

I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering...

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod...

I nodded. I was ready. In fact I was so ready that if he didn’t do something soon, if he didn’t touch me in the next five seconds, it was very possible I might die....

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.

Too long, much too long.

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack – I was meant to.

Ari’s words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.

Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them, and I’m not ashamed to use ’em.

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?””I’d rather swim in battery acid.

It feels like I was made to fit here, in the space beneath his heart.

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.”Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Animals do not respect their master’s brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.

I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.It was the f***ing story...

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

You were that little girl.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash...