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...

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.

I don’t think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it’s crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.

Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all...

…don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?I can’t tell.The thermometer says I’m normal, but I’m clearly not.

Given the chance, would I go back? Back to the time when my parents were alive? When my biggest problem was a past-due paper? When I didn’t need to know how to take care of...

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

There are demons within. And they’re the deadliest kind.

When you got captured, I didn’t know…” He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. “If it’d be like…””What?””Like it was with Clotile.””Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I’m unharmed.””Didn’t know if...

What a lovely display of personhood. He’s like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I’m fun but smart. You won’t be able to put me down.

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game...

The Forsaken.

Nothing was better than good sex.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn’t forget it on mornings like this one—fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front...

It doesn’t matter if it’s the real world or fictional,” I insisted. “Crushes are the best part of liking someone, and they are completely safe. You get all the benefits of fantasising about someone, but...

Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to...

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.

Shadows ran all around her and someone was talking to her but it was all just white noise. Goodbye solo she would never perform. Goodbye perfect night that never got the chance to end in...

Nick spoke for the first time. “Can I go to the nurse’s office too?” Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. “No.””I’m traumatized too,” Nick claimed, his voice...

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Because you took too long. If you’d done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn’t have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Tell us if your fingernails turn to stone,” Victor chuckled.

You know when you’re on a course that you know is the right one. You can’t explain it, you can’t define it, you don’t know how you got there or what all the obstacles will...

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

However, I have an enormous desire to change his way of life and try to re-educate him with the ingredient called ardent affection.~Emily

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

I need a favour.’I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.

And it’s always better, isn’t it, when you discover answers on your own?

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.