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.

Yes, his ear. I was attracted to his ear. While I was in church. I’m pretty sure that solidifies my position as the weirdest person on the planet.

You are a bright light, Elli.’ His own breath hitches, a sound that I cannot quite grasp. His eyes are darkening, his lips tightening. His hands grasp me tighter and he moves closer, his mouth...

Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just...

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.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

The two men’s eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him sway dangerously over the edge. Both men reached for their guns, but it...

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it…

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When...

What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn’t.

…You’re worried that you’re going to go out of here and mess up your lines or trip on your high heels, but you’re not. You’re going to blow them away, just like you always do....

When I was laying there in his arms nothing else mattered. My parents, my lack of funds, everything just seemed to melt away as I was lost in his lips”- Bentley Evans

Because she left him a MySpace message that was semi-flirty, and then today he was very vague about what he was doing. So I headed over to his house and waited outside until he left....

Dead yet?” Gus answered.I smirked. “Not yet, but the night’s still young.””Here’s hoping.

Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to...

Antes no se lo hubiera cuestionado, pero ese momento, sólo esa mirada bastó para que todo lo que él creía, todas las reglas a las que estaba acostumbrado, se vinieran abajo tan de repente como...

All of sudden I cared what someone thought of me. Because we are friends. And making you miserable and angry makes me miserable and angry. I don’t want to be the person to make you...

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

Oh, Alan Ryves,” she said. “You’re such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

I wrapped up my food to take home. “Let’s go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I’m going to kill you. Just so you know.”Claire grinned. “You’re welcome.”~Gray

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn’t know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

Then I rest my head on his chest and I feel the beating of his heart, even though it is not as fast as mine at this moment. I imagine that his heart can be...