Eleanore, he whispered again, tilting his head to mine, his lips skimming past my cheek, his breath in my ear. I'd wait forever for you, you know. If it mattered. If you'd care.I do care, I whispered...
We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.
I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will.
My neck was slender and long and I could bend it nearly all the way about to take in my body: also slender, also shining.I was a dragon of gold, as if Jesse had touched me and transmuted me but not ta...
The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yo...
I confess, as much as I enjoy you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well.She studied him through the eyeholes. You truly stopped trying to be charming.You're the most ravishing creature in th...
I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time I’d tried.I could glide, though. Probably.Maybe.Should worse come to worst, I could smoke up...
I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.
Nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fa...
I’d dreamed once of a forest of gold, and Jesse had done what he could to give it to me. His bedroom had been transformed into a wonderland of leaves and flowers, pinecones and branches of birch and o...
The duke’s son and the pauper girl. I suppose as a couple we were the most interesting thing in view.I took the champagne glass from Armand and finished what he hadn’t. As Sophia had said, it wasn’t s...
She was too compelling to look at directly. Bright like the sun, bright and terrible. Only one other being could look upon her, and that was Death. And so…they became lovers.He said the word like a ca...
I love you. At your best and your worst, I love you. Paris or Darkfrith. Here, there, and everywhere, I love you.
You’d better marry her before she reaches eighteen and the spell wears off, I said.Spell?Yes. The one that’s hiding her fangs and pincers from plain sight.I don’t find them especially hidden, he said...
I’ll start in the air, I said, far more steadily than I thought I could, considering. I knelt to tie the shirt around his thigh, cinching it tight above the wound; he stiffened but let me finish the k...
No. He caught her back to him, spreading his fingers over her uninjured cheek. Listen. When you were twelve years old I saw you for the first time. Truly saw you. And from then on, I took note wheneve...
You deserve someone who loves you without conditions. Who would never look at another woman for the rest of his life with anything but indifference, because you are the sum of his dreams. The one girl...
There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do n...
Stop, Jesse said.I stared up at him, almost panting with fear.Stop, beloved, he said more gently, and took up my clenched fist with both hands. I’ve upset you, and I shouldn’t have. I don’t want you t...
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