Cinderella of course,” Danielle giggled.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people’s pity.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn’t know...

I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way.

Do you ever wear leather?” the guy asks.”What?””Leather. Do you like leather?””It doesn’t exactly wipe me out.””I like to see boys in leather.”I look at him cool. “Okay,” I say, “what is it you want...

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It’s stuff that doesn’t fly by tropes or adhere to rules — appropriate, perhaps, since...

And once you’ve been to this Center, this Truth, you’ll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on...

I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.

The marks we leave are too often scars.

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I...

Ouch! I feel bitch slapped– Matt Carter

You can’t let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost.

How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?

She feels him scoot closer, the heat of him radiating off his chest and absorbing into her skin. His legs straddle her from behind, and he places delicate kisses along her shoulder, her back, the...

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.

Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to the real part of your life—but it’s more than that. Sometimes...

Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He’s a prince, and he’s only going to break your heart.

He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.

He hoots as he passes. Another one whistles. I know this is stupid, inviting trouble. But it feels so good to be wanted, I can’t help myself.

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love…

Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,’ he said, turning to face me. ‘Both will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?”Not likely,’...

YA stories feature a young adult protagonist or protagonists and usually focus on that character’s journey toward maturity (the tradition of the Bildungsroman.). Learning about love / relationships is an important part of that stage...

In life, if a door closes, all you need to do is move to the window; as long as your whiskers can clear the space you will move through effortlessly. quote by T.G. the “Feline...

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream – but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in...

You two are bad, sneaking behind Mr. Caswell’s back, getting a little something, something on the side.

I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father’s hand. “What’s this?” he asked, raising a brow. “You’ll need...

I’m sorry,” I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast...

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don’t do…

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.

No, but hot boys can burn you just as easily.

You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists because there...

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That’s why he makes me stand out here in the cold. – excerpt from: freefalling

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

Stacey muttered, “But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven’t . . .” her voice trailed off...

Animals do not respect their master’s brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

I am enlightened.

I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips… Or any other body part.