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...
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...
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.
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.
I think the word is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, meant that everything within me-my organs, my spirit, my hope-plunged down into a place of utter...
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...
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...
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’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...
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...
He straightened. Are you ready?Yes. He nodded, his gaze traveling the length of her body, deliberately, slowly, as if to memorize her as she stood.Then may I have a kiss? he asked, unmoving. For luck?...
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...
Sun's down, muttered one of the guardsmen by the windows.Then it's time. Grady made to push away from the table, and the rest began to follow.No, said Kit.Grady paused with his palm pressed flat again...
Nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
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’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...
We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.
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...
There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped nake...
I thought that ground fire couldn’t reach the zeppelins, I said. I thought that guns on the ground didn’t have the range.Eleanore. Do you imagine for one particle of one second that he was thinking cl...
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