People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re...

I don’t have deal breakers,” Alan said. “I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

I wrapped up my food to take home. ‘Let’s go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I’m going to kill you. Just so you know.’Claire grinned. ‘You’re welcome.’ ~Gray

I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn’t really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait...

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just… ever after.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in...

It’s always been you, Paige. I’ve waited my whole life for you. You’re the air I breathe, my heart and soul. Without you, I’m in hell.

Luthicer hummed. “You’re either brave or very foolish.” “What’s the difference?” (Eric)

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things...

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.

Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.

I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

We’d better get. But y’all have a nice night,’ I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I’ll jot down later if I’m not dead in a ditch.

I’d love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine

Don’t you have a house to blow down?

I choose you.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a start—and that was all that mattered.

Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

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.

I couldn’t compete with Honesty, With her dark blonde hair streaked with auburn, With her captivating blue eyes, With her legs that stretched into forever. She had the brains, The body, The perfect resume for...

Well I’m not going to hope that you get hurt, but if you do, remember that you’re my damsel in distress, and no one is allowed to carry you.””I don’t remember signing a contract.””All the...

I was about to sit down when Kyle’s hand wrapped around my left wrist lightly and pulled up my arm. The suddenness of his touch was startling. I looked at him, confused, and saw fire...

There’s a word for an author who doesn’t give up… published.

I love you, Megan,” he says, barely grazing my mouth with his. “I love you too, Alex. This is it. This is our someday.” His gaze is filled with emotion. “No, Megan.” His soft lips...

You are so much like her.”This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room...

I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I’m sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, “Frankie, you’re...

Often I’ve wondered what it would feel like to be him,” he whispered softly. “To feel the warmth of your skin under my cold hand or your hot breath on my lips. These last few...

She’s a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is...

Please, touch me, I pray.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

You are so beautiful.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

And it’s a shame, really it is, because, according to you, I was the one true friend you had.

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in “Death of the Mad Hatter” (Coming Soon!)

Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall.”The truth dawned on...

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

Fine. Bait me up and show me the hook.

And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent...

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.

People who fall in love can fall out of it.

I didn’t want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)