His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn’t care. ‘He’s alive!’ Blue said again...

No, but I like to hear it.” She smiled back at him with a smile that illuminated her face. She did like to hear it. She hadn’t know Nico for very long, but there was...

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

You were just worried about me.” An exhale, relieved that I had understood. “Yeah”I turned. “Because you think I’m worth it”He put his fingers under my chin. “I absolutely think your worth it.””But you don’t...

Barnabas’s voice helps me drift off to sleep. I think briefly about how I’ve never felt this way about anyone else. I care about my family and friends, but this is a different feeling. This...

I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

I’m serious, Mar, I don’t know how to act around him now. I can’t be nice, because he’ll hate that. But I can’t be mean just to be nice.””You really need medication.””I’m in a quandary....

I went outside and discovered that nighttime is for lovers.

Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

As I stand at the edge of the pit, searching for his body amongst all the others, I am slightly frightened by the violent clashes. It seems almost savagery, the way they throw themselves into...

Love doesn’t exist, you see. It’s just another shadowy figure that goes bump in the night.

Before I could respond, I looked out the window again and as if in response to my thoughts, I saw Cooper walking up my driveway. My jaw dropped. I peeked around the kitchen doorframe. Mom...

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. ‘Show me what it looked like, before the fire.’ His request surprised me, but I did as he...

Jacob glanced across at the woman. ‘She’d have you for breakfast, mate.”Yeah,’ Luca countered, ‘maybe I want to be had for breakfast.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that’s been discarded.

And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so...

She actually isn’t so bad, now that I’m getting to know her. She’s just a little messy on the outside. But aren’t we all?

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone’s got if they’d just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it’s something we all have to give, and if it’s something we...

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

There were two people…things at the cave entrance,’ I whispered, shuffling as close to him as possible, my eyes trained on where the strangers had stood only seconds ago. At my words, Patrick seemed to...

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

The greater a man’s – or boy’s – ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

If people don’t wish to be eaten then they shouldn’t taste so nice

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Yes, his ear. I was attracted to his ear. While I was in church. I’m pretty sure that solidifies my position as the weirdest person on the planet.

You are a bright light, Elli.’ His own breath hitches, a sound that I cannot quite grasp. His eyes are darkening, his lips tightening. His hands grasp me tighter and he moves closer, his mouth...

Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just...

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits...

If you don’t change course – if you don’t have something waiting for you, even if it’s just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you’re not going to make it. You need to make...

You can’t doubt so much, Psyche

Gordon Edgley’s sudden death came as a shock to everyone – not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book,...

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

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.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

The two men’s eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him sway dangerously over the edge. Both men reached for their guns, but it...

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it…

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When...

What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn’t.

…You’re worried that you’re going to go out of here and mess up your lines or trip on your high heels, but you’re not. You’re going to blow them away, just like you always do....

When I was laying there in his arms nothing else mattered. My parents, my lack of funds, everything just seemed to melt away as I was lost in his lips”- Bentley Evans

Because she left him a MySpace message that was semi-flirty, and then today he was very vague about what he was doing. So I headed over to his house and waited outside until he left....

Dead yet?” Gus answered.I smirked. “Not yet, but the night’s still young.””Here’s hoping.

Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to...