Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.

I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.

It doesn’t matter who you were or what you’ve done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I’m not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can’t promise you that I won’t want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

O, het was makkelijk om dingen op te geven en te beweren dat je vrij van de wereld was, gemakkelijk om kleine irritaties te vergeven en jezelf op de borst te kloppen, omdat je je...

I can see time,” whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.

I may be heaven-sent, but I’m not perfect.

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin’ Maze and find our way out.

Well, put it this way–I don’t want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again.

It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere you go. Relaxing indoors like this is the best thing you can do on such a nice day. It’s exhausting to get into those crowds. And the...

To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his...

Good.

What do you mean?”Granmare Baba only smiled her yellow toothy smile before she went about putting things together in a large cauldron that seemed to have magically appeared in the center of the round room.

It’s not like I want to get discovered, exactly, the way you hear actresses getting picked off at diners. It’s more about my own road to discovery like pecking my way out of a shell....

Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when...

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the...

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn’t believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it’s not because of a defect in...

After Nick rescued Kate from an attack at the football game they talk as he drives her home. “I said that because I really did see a monster.” I looked at Nick as we turned...

Dear Diary: I have a confession to make: I’ve become a total idiot over French pastries. They’re my new favorite food. My new-found edible souvenir. My new favorite sin. Dunkin Donuts is so yesterday.

Why, why, why. But you don’t ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.

…Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything….

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That’s who I was pretending to be a minute ago – Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past....

And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know...

They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.

A parent’s words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

I hated all this: the mystery of myself.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near,” – Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceStation at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clattering to a halt...

Paradójicamente, alguna vez me había enojado con Víctor por tratar de hacerme olvidar a Justin… y ahora me enojaba cada vez más con Justin por no dejarme olvidarlo.

And darkness will rule.

Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.

Abuse doesn’t define you.

I promised I will always protect you. You’ve been wounded badly because I’ve failed to keep that promise.[…]But I won´t fail you in this, Rachel. no matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done....

Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate?