Dear Matthew-There’s one more thing I didn’t get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been for a long time. This...

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It’s just in me to give.

Cinderella of course,” Danielle giggled.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people’s pity.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That’s why he makes me stand out here in the cold. – excerpt from: freefalling

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

Stacey muttered, “But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven’t . . .” her voice trailed off...

Animals do not respect their master’s brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

I am enlightened.

I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips… Or any other body part.

His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn’t care. ‘He’s alive!’ Blue said again...

No, but I like to hear it.” She smiled back at him with a smile that illuminated her face. She did like to hear it. She hadn’t know Nico for very long, but there was...

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

You were just worried about me.” An exhale, relieved that I had understood. “Yeah”I turned. “Because you think I’m worth it”He put his fingers under my chin. “I absolutely think your worth it.””But you don’t...

Barnabas’s voice helps me drift off to sleep. I think briefly about how I’ve never felt this way about anyone else. I care about my family and friends, but this is a different feeling. This...

I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

I’m serious, Mar, I don’t know how to act around him now. I can’t be nice, because he’ll hate that. But I can’t be mean just to be nice.””You really need medication.””I’m in a quandary....

I went outside and discovered that nighttime is for lovers.

Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

As I stand at the edge of the pit, searching for his body amongst all the others, I am slightly frightened by the violent clashes. It seems almost savagery, the way they throw themselves into...

Love doesn’t exist, you see. It’s just another shadowy figure that goes bump in the night.

Before I could respond, I looked out the window again and as if in response to my thoughts, I saw Cooper walking up my driveway. My jaw dropped. I peeked around the kitchen doorframe. Mom...

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. ‘Show me what it looked like, before the fire.’ His request surprised me, but I did as he...

Jacob glanced across at the woman. ‘She’d have you for breakfast, mate.”Yeah,’ Luca countered, ‘maybe I want to be had for breakfast.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that’s been discarded.

And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so...

She actually isn’t so bad, now that I’m getting to know her. She’s just a little messy on the outside. But aren’t we all?

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone’s got if they’d just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it’s something we all have to give, and if it’s something we...

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

There were two people…things at the cave entrance,’ I whispered, shuffling as close to him as possible, my eyes trained on where the strangers had stood only seconds ago. At my words, Patrick seemed to...

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

I’ve come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it’s inevitable. Fight for it.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. “How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you,...

She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me–the poetry of I love you–to keep me warm in the cold. With them she turns me back from ash and...

She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.

No, but hot boys can burn you just as easily.

You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists because there...

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits...

If you don’t change course – if you don’t have something waiting for you, even if it’s just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you’re not going to make it. You need to make...

You can’t doubt so much, Psyche

Gordon Edgley’s sudden death came as a shock to everyone – not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book,...

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.