You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County...

You do now. You have to be fit, you have to be strong, Taryn, if you’re to stand any chance of surviving this. Come on, we’ll start with stretching.” He forced me to twist my...

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and...

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

That’s real.

The waiter repeated, “The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you’d enjoy them. They are called Secrets.

You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. ‘Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele’ You will give your fire so that Man may...

I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

It was like staring into the face of a familiar stranger. You know, that person you see in a crowd and swear you know, but you really don’t? Now she was me – the familiar...

I turned away from him, the hot blood still coursing through my veins. I gripped the door handle, and it molded like dough into the form of my hand. Not even caring, I wrenched the...

I know,” I said and felt like a monster.

Horeb bent over me and ran his hand down my neck, not stopping when his fingers reached my chest. I jerked backward. “What are you doing?”His eyes were black and intense. “A little taste before...

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said.

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I’m only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it’s difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My...

And I have thepower to do the impossible.

But if you don’t remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes…!

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

She’s not close enough. She’ll never be close enough…

I can not bear to see such woes of the heart in the eyes of my beloved.

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.

The path is here,” he said quietly. “But you are free to walk it or choose another way.

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise.”Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by...

Aren’t we forever?

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You’re my ideal reader, friend, partner. I’m your fan.

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

I like you, Tess.

I’m leaning toward the second choice. You are both getting way too weird. And gross.”Cal barked out a laugh and slid his fingers down my arm to entwine with mine. His touch, and Emma’s comments,...

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

Me gustaría poder contarte qué pasó, pero no puedo. Algún día lo haré, pero ahora mismo no puedo, y necesito que lo aceptes. Por favor. Y no te pido perdón porque no quiero que me...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart...

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like...

I stopped looking at the cars after the first few miles. Once I started to see past the exteriors, I saw what lay inside some of them and felt the urge to sprint to the...

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn’t really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I...

I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.

You used to scream so well when you were scared, back when I lived under your bed.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

You’ve left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we’re being dealt the consequences.”I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make...

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Ramon looked closely at the little guy as he ate. “Maybe he’s Jewish. I mean, if Sammy Davis Jr. could convert to Judaism, why not a chupacabra? We should name him Harry Mendelbaum.”I held up...

As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown and murky with the memory of the storm, so if there’s something below...

What’s poetry?” I’ve never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

A conscience can be a dangerous thing