A parent’s words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

I hated all this: the mystery of myself.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near,” – Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceStation at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clattering to a halt...

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I’m not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can’t promise you that I won’t want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

O, het was makkelijk om dingen op te geven en te beweren dat je vrij van de wereld was, gemakkelijk om kleine irritaties te vergeven en jezelf op de borst te kloppen, omdat je je...

I can see time,” whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.

I may be heaven-sent, but I’m not perfect.

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin’ Maze and find our way out.

Well, put it this way–I don’t want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again.

It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere you go. Relaxing indoors like this is the best thing you can do on such a nice day. It’s exhausting to get into those crowds. And the...

To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his...

When you got captured, I didn’t know…” He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. “If it’d be like…””What?””Like it was with Clotile.””Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I’m unharmed.””Didn’t know if...

What a lovely display of personhood. He’s like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I’m fun but smart. You won’t be able to put me down.

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game...

The Forsaken.

Nothing was better than good sex.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn’t forget it on mornings like this one—fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front...

It doesn’t matter if it’s the real world or fictional,” I insisted. “Crushes are the best part of liking someone, and they are completely safe. You get all the benefits of fantasising about someone, but...

Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to...

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.

Shadows ran all around her and someone was talking to her but it was all just white noise. Goodbye solo she would never perform. Goodbye perfect night that never got the chance to end in...

Nick spoke for the first time. “Can I go to the nurse’s office too?” Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. “No.””I’m traumatized too,” Nick claimed, his voice...

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Because you took too long. If you’d done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn’t have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Tell us if your fingernails turn to stone,” Victor chuckled.

You know when you’re on a course that you know is the right one. You can’t explain it, you can’t define it, you don’t know how you got there or what all the obstacles will...

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

However, I have an enormous desire to change his way of life and try to re-educate him with the ingredient called ardent affection.~Emily

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

I need a favour.’I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.

And it’s always better, isn’t it, when you discover answers on your own?

Paradójicamente, alguna vez me había enojado con Víctor por tratar de hacerme olvidar a Justin… y ahora me enojaba cada vez más con Justin por no dejarme olvidarlo.

And darkness will rule.

Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.

Abuse doesn’t define you.

I promised I will always protect you. You’ve been wounded badly because I’ve failed to keep that promise.[…]But I won´t fail you in this, Rachel. no matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done....

Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate?