He was attractive and he knew it, but he pretended he had no idea. Therefore he was both vain and disingenuous. Tall, or so he seemed to Jess, he looked Italian with his dark skin and dark eyes. Very...
He said, I had to dance with all the girls who didn’t have a partner. I’d be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts. Sh! What? It...
He could explain away the mechanical, but the inner workings of the soul eluded him
Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If t...
Sometimes its like Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to be deep.
I want to give back. He looked at her and said in all seriousness, Why? What did you take?
Teddy Shoes, where you could buy patent-leather pumps with a kitten heel in men’s thirteen.
Reading was like visiting distant friends.
I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.
Collin sat on a marble bench, chaste white, funereal, carved with the words PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT. When he opened his arms for Nina, a guard hurried over. Sir! I’m sorry—you can’t sit there!
The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. T...