I felt your sorrow before I even knew something was wrong. It hit me like a freight train of boulders. You made the sky rain fireballs with red lightning. Need I say more?

Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren’t real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can’t trust that any of...

I knew that feeling, the sense of panic that stretched time, turning seconds into years, and the deep pain that came from being hurt by not one person but many, a gang of bullies that...

As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to...

I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I’m not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

No one is only one thing, my dear.

We don’t have five minutes.

Good to see you too, Otto.” -Sydney Rose

I’ve always found wildlife very calming– except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Que difícil era saber lo que era real y lo que no

You’re a bloodthirsty lass, aren’t you?

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn’t depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless.” -Bliss Aston

I look at her suspiciously. … Nothing is ever short and easy in this class.

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in...

She’d survived the outside. She’d survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let go. Whatever came next, she would survive it, too

Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. ‘It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of you throwing yourself at guys just to try and get laid. Christ, I’d...

Faris turned on him. “Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I’m in black. Why are you? Mourning?He looked startled. “One does not wear mourning for a servant.”You still don’t...

A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up...

every disagreement has to have a winner and a loser; life can never be a draw.

Yes, I do.

The only wand you’ll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.”You can put it like that. I’m utterly useless.”Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely… inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the...

I’m sure the other kids wouldn’t mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

Funny. You like it when I scream? Yet you cover my mouth!” I laughed then winced.

Even though we don’t admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard’s lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian...

It’s funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be — if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.But as hard as I...

The temperature of my blood dropped several degrees, and I took a step back. My heart quickened. “Storm?” I prompted, looking at the boxes on the dock labeled “non-perishable.

They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny...

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren’t equal.

Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain.

Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond...

Thomas closes the gap between us and kisses me. Hard. This is not wet and sloppy like his playful kisses. Or dry and desperate like Percy’s. Or teasing like the king’s.No. This kiss is eloquent...

People like us were born to change the world. It’s filled with shit. It’s filled with people who did the things they did to you. It’s filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much...

I ‘d never seen him cry; I didn’t think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core… but...

No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he...

Heroes, well, they don’t live so long. But they’re muy suave, and we all admire them.

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

Em didn’t truly understand about my panic attacks – no one did. But she’d never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like...

Nathaniel Strider could never love. He’s obviously discovered early on that girls’ hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.