I hear they feed you in Sing Sing, Evie muttered. Three squares a day. Evangeline, Will said with a sigh. Charity begins at home. So does mental illness.
I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.
I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.
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...
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways, Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is...
His hand was a claw, sharp enough to open her. She would be like all the others—Ruta Badowski, in her broken dancing shoes. Tommy Duffy, still with the dirt of his last baseball game under his nails....
He smiles sadly. Now I know my destiny.What is it?This.He draws me in to him in a kiss. His lips are warm. He pulls me tighter in his embrace. The roots sigh and release their hold on my waist and the...
Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and yo...
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...
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...
For a second, I stop fighting and think about what he's asking me. Did I live? I made a best friend. Lost another. Cried. Laughed. Lost my virginity. Gained a piece of magic, gave it away. Possibly ch...
Evie replied with an eye-roll. Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone? The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll. Sam smirked. You’re not that talented a thief,...
Evie narrowed her eyes. A time limit. Four weeks of the swooniest, swellest romance New York City has ever seen. And then, kaput. Over and out. Off the air.Golly, when you say it like that, it sounds...
Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours? No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis. I weep for the future. There’s where the martinis...
Did she just say they’d drag the river for your body? T. S. Woodhouse asked, his pencil poised above his open notebook.Sam sighed like a man deeply in love. She did, the little bearcat. It’s the only...
Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
Creostus’s booming laugh leaves gooseflesh upon my arms. He paces close to me. Jealous, Priestess? Do you wish to compete for my affections? I should like to see that. I’m sure you would. But you will...
Corro porque puedo, porque debo.Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.