How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks,...

I only have eyes for you.” He touched the tip of my nose with his finger. I swatted him away. Jace laughed. ~Jace~

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Is it not enough to shine,To know that friends are true?That love is born of friendship,And who you are is you?

Time will make it worse! You’re…the other half of his soul. He’s never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will… you’ll never get over him. You’re going...

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret.

The only bright corner of my heart, where nothing seemed to hurt, was where Grey was. When I thought of him, I could see a future where I could be happy again, where I might...

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

Kammy jerked upright. It was as though the trees had parted beneath the pressure of the storm and a bolt of lightning had struck her. She had never entered the mouth for it had always...

You said the potholes in Leslie’s driveway suck.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It’s just another word for giving up.

She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

You can’t keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You’ll give in eventually, and I won’t quit until you do.

If only I had the speed that my alien boyfriend had, then I could just zip through my senior year and forget about distance and mom’s annoyingly great sense of hearing. But when said alien...

What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who’ve lost an archery match with cupid?

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I’m not used to tender. It’s a fossil, that word....

The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their location within an alcove of a cliff made all of it...

…I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage’s robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the...

Give me agony or give me death,I’ll take thy heart as eternal breath

My mind argued with itself about whether to adhere to proper etiquette or whether to fling aside all modesty and throw my arms around him. My feet chose the latter before my mind had a...

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night…The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know...

Everything happens at night.The world changes, the shadows grow, there’s secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their parents have...

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

We need to talk,” he insisted, opening the door to his jeep that was parked next to my car. I was still holding out hope this would end and I would see his smile soon....

I’d encourage [you] to think big and be delusional when setting goals. Yes, delusional. The biggest mistake that I made with my first business was I didn’t think big enough. I limited my success by...

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.

Cabeza de Vaca had wrapped her in his arms and in his language, whispering about a life she did not understand although understanding seemed to form just beyond the sea and sand, waiting there for...

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

I’m not mean to everybody. I’m only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.

Make him earn it.

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. “Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people...

I wanted to apologize but what could I say? I’m sorry but I’m afraid my fangs might freak you out. Oh and by the way my eyes sort of glow in the dark when I...

Am I more afraidOf taking a chance andlearning I’m somebodyI don’t know, or of risking new territory,only to find I’m the sameold me? There is comfortin the tried and true.Breaking groundmight uncover a sinkhole,one impossible...

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I’d ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet...

I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man’s chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up.

I feel like I might start crying and that I’m going to cry pee.

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...