Close enough.” And then he kissed me.

Wow! It’s like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. “It’s God’s love. That’s stronger than any magic.” – The Demon Trapper’s Daughter

I’m not really sure what I’m going to do when I get there, but that’s why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling.

Our group pressed west on what was left of Highway 93, toward the pass leading to Las Vegas. Sand covered the road in loose drifts so deep the horses’ hooves sank into them. The metal...

You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times…We might actually be able to call it even.

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke...

Wisdom cannot be stolen – it can only be shared.

Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.

I’ve decided she’s worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

Isn’t that thing a little unsanitary for the workplace?” I pointed to his lip ring.”I assure you that my lip ring is the last thing you should be worried about.” He smiled as he leaned...

Responsibility sucked rocks. Until a few months ago, I hadn’t been responsible for anything more than color-coordinating my wardrobe. But foil one vampire vixen bent on world domination and suddenly people expect all kinds of...

Hay veces en las que alguien confía lo suficiente en ti como para contarte sus secretos y eso hace que sea más fácil confiar en él.

Promise?”I promise.

I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.

Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.

Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.

Hell won’t be so bad, you know. After all, I’ll be there to keep you company.

It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.

He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it’s addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.

Her chest began to quake softly. “Why?””Why what, sweetheart?” I said gently. “Why do you want me?”I didn’t even have to think. “Because anyone who’s been through what you have and can still come out...

It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but I would always do anything to protect her.

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have?

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

…it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. – Sara

Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.”–p. 1 …Before My Eyes…look for it on 2.11.14

I once knew a girl who was like a dying rainbow. Her colors were incomparable, her countenance a whirlwind of brilliance. As much as she shone, however, she faded into nothingness, at times so quickly...

How about ‘ridiculed in nursery rhymes’?

You’re everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.

I wouldn’t care if the seven horseman of the Apocalypse charged through the garden right now, nothing’s gonna stop me from doing this.” He leaned down and captured my lips with tenderness, a completely perfect...

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

I’m guessing that’s a uniform.”Crap. I’d forgotten I was still wearing it.

Sometimes,you don’t wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I’m trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.

This is my heart on CRACK.” Robin when she sees Creek

I’m not fragile,” I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn’t want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?” the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. “Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of...

Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise.

The dark held new meaning for me now. There was a whole other world out there that I was just beginning to discover… A world that had once been only farce was now very real”....

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.

I’ll kill him.

Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.

Yes, I’m Daniel Tahi.” I know what your lips taste like.I know you roll your eyes when you think someone is an idiot. I know that you wish you were six inches shorter because you...

I’m not the only poet at this table.