I’m not myself,” she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.He smiled. “You can never say that. You’re just a piece of yourself right...

True, but Little Sister is patient and she’s always watching.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

He kissed her slowly, deeply, seized by a slew of contrasting emotions. It was wrong to kiss her, he registered faintly in the back of his mind, but it felt more right than anything else...

What can I do?” his gaze on me was intense, like I was some sort of love guru or something. I almost laughed out loud at how unqualified I was for that position.

We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies.So what were we?

Careful,” he smiled, “I’m lethal.

He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. ‘My tiny huntress, do you know what you’ve done to me?

You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or...

I just want to know—are you rooting for me? Are you hoping I pull this off?”Cath’s eyes settled on his, tentatively, like they’d fly away if he moved.She nodded her head.The right side of his...

I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever understood the wistfulness...

He leaned in close and spoke low. “Wow, I don’t know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it...

You’re not safe with me.”He cut me off, seeming to growl. “I don’t want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can’t do this alone.

The death has an only color.

Why is he scared of the dark?”I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. “Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is”.

Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, “Journey of the Chosen”.

Now she could smell what the jaguar could smell, odors deeper and richer than anything she had experienced before, layers of smell she could read like Fray Tomás had read the words in her father’s...

We’re seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can’t think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.

I lied to you,’ she said, hanging her head in shame, ‘more than once. In fact, I swore that my lies were truth. I can’t understand how it could have happened. It just came out...

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I’d be free right now. Probably even doing some real job,” she sneered.

Tess, there isn’t a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to … continue.

Am I your weakness?””Of course you are.

Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of...

I remember…watching that separation of sea and sky…and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.

…what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

I have to get off this elevator.I can’t ride with him, Can’t look at him, Can’t be this close to him. Can’t, Can’t, can’t.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

Theo, Baleigh, and Lucas were good-looking people, and good-looking people hardly ever went unnoticed.

She looks so broken, I don’t want to hurt her more.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

business.

You should be,” I stated, moving for her.

I knew it all along,” he murmured in my ear.”What did you know?”His cool breath blew in my ear as he exhaled. “You are my redemption.” –Caleb Raines; Redemption

Maybe that’s what growing up is. When you can’t be who you are and do what everyone’s telling you to do at the same time anymore. – Rowie from Sister Mischief

This is a battle trophy and nothing to be ashamed of. Every one of your scars makes you more beautiful to me.

It wasn’t premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

Excuse me? You’re the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? What if I had fallen deeply and madly in love...

I don’t want to be lonesome. I want to be with you.

Zo, I’m not a damn pussy!’Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, ‘No, you’re a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.

You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?

The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

I’m still dropping dishes thinking in slow motion about the GPS woman in Mom’s car. I imagine her beckoning me from outside the kitchen window illuminated like some robot-angel calling me forth to the Lexus...

ARE YOU CRAZY?” I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

I’m already under the covers when he comes in. I watch as he takes off his shirt and jeans, and climbs into bed beside me. On any other occasion, the sight and feel of his...

A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.