We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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.
Nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
By the next afternoon, a shepherd boy had heard his shouts and he’d been hauled up the cliffs and confined to an empty pigeon house, the sole survivor of his doomed mission.Gone cracked, though, from...
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