Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I...
En opinión de Evie había pocas cosas peores que ser normal. Lo normal era para los paletos. Ella quería ser especial. Una estrella brillante.
Even Evie believed in something, that something being Evie a lot of the time.
Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel beam, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting...
Every leader has blood on her hands.
Every mornin’, every evenin’, ain’t we got fun?
Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the po...
Forgiveness. The frail beauty of the world takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods, past the caves and the ravine, where the earth has accepted the flesh of the deer, leaving nothing...
He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pinin...
He put a hand to the cool, painted stones bearing witness to so many names, so many histories. In the mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the i...
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even t...
Hey, the cabbie yelled. How’s about a tip? You bet-ski, Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.
Hold up. How do you have sex with somebody? Adina scoffed. Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't s ee your penis there'?Tiara squealed and waved her hands. Don't say that word!What? Sorry? Gah! Ti...
Holy f---! she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse.
I am not asking you to understand, Papa. I'm asking for you to accept.Accept what? My decision to live my own life as I see fit.It is so quiet that I suddenly wish I could take it back.
I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker. There are people who do that, Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. Really? What d...
I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs.
I don’t care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that’s that. He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. Let ‘em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech a...
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