I rise early that morning and dress in green and brown, my skirst the same colour as the forest floor. I include a cap copied from one of the duchess’s, but set farther back from...

My father laughed. “The magic of Summer,” he said, “is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic.”Forever Frost...

Calling a book “Young Adult” is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But...

He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel.

An elegant sari was draped across her figure; magnificent, painstakingly embroidered, and in a shade of deep red, it was even more lavish than the gowns she had worn every day since arriving at the...

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia’s spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

I’m not like you. I’ve never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people’s feelings. All I’ve ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much...

Eastlake High makes Buffy’s hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.

I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I sucked in a deep breath, held it, and marveled at my own transformation into a...

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave… Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Aquella tarde, en clase de Historia, Eleanor reparó en que Park mordisqueaba el lápiz para concentrarse. Y en que la chica que tenía detrás (cómo se llama, Kim, la de las tetas grandes y la...

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? – Tommy to Danny

I have two rules I follow religiously:#1. Don’t sweat the small stuff.#2. It’s all small stuff.

We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

If you continue with that train of thought and end it with, I did it because I love you and can’t bear to see you in turmoil, you could sell it to Hallmark, but not...

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things – either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

Handsome vampires are addictive

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

I haven’t finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn’t stop just because one person is asleep.

She turned back to Jace. “Do you have to be so-,” she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable.”Unpleasant?” he finishes for her. “Only at days when my...

Cold air clawed at my face, ripping tears from my eyes. I buried my face deep into Daniel’s back and breathed in a mixture of familiar scents – almonds, oil paint, earth, and a hint...

She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re...

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Every thing’s for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can’t buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free....

On Algebra – “We’re a month into it, and I’m planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I’m...

Twice,” added the voice under the table.

It had become their creation, and they all would know it.

I didn’t want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn’t want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and...

Ladies, set your standards high. Never lower them.. The day you do, you will get less then what you deserve.Every woman, deserves to be treated like a queen with respect. It’s better to be single...

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.

A glance would not be enough to tell you this was the daughter of Katherine Raquel Demure. Even a lingering gaze would not suffice. No. Only careful study of the original and a comparative inspection...

Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever be a time when she could use other kinds of power. She missed it. It felt...

I’m not.

This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” – Esme from Sister Mischief

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that’s what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.

For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy’s schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.

Isn’t that what true romance issupposed 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...

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of...

Oliver! Please, shit up!

What are you going to fill it with?” she asks. “Holy water or something?” “Probably Dasani,” Thomas replies.

Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)

They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that’s how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the...

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.