But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.
Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.
We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.
There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.
Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend...
Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.
She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Ag...
She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.
She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone. And you know that how? Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me....
Sam frowns at me, suddenly serious. You know, I thought--for most of the first year we lived together--that you were going to kill me.That makes me nearly spit out beer, I laugh so hard.No, look--livi...
Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything.
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.
Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he...
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.