Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.
We can hope.
The first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: Luke! Inside. Now. He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely a...
Suddenly
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go...
Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.
But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.
People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.
Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.
Winning isn't everything, Eisenhower said faintly. Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
You know how to steer a yacht? Mr. McIntyre asked Ian worriedly.I was born knowing how to steer a yacht, Ian said. Then a stricken look came over his face. But–do you suppose Jonah prepaid the full am...
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, Is this as good as it gets?
He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.
Won’t
At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.
Staring into the ring of candles—proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake
Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?
I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!
But did he go to heaven? Katherine persisted. That's between him and God, not him and history, JB said.Alex started, jerking so spastically that he kicked the basketball and would have sent it spinnin...
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.