I wish we were alone, he says.I almost always wish that, I say.
I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
I don’t … I sound like I am being strangled. My family is all dead, or traitors; how can I …I am not making any sense. The sobs take over my body, my mind, everything. He gathers me to him, and bathwa...
He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.
There was only one option left, and it was letting go.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
She’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her i...
What is it with you today? says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.Oh, you know, I say. Sun shining. Birds...
We could visit him, suggests Will. But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
Wait a second, Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't...
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
Not many of us will be able to go, because a crowd that large would draw too much attention. Evelyn won’t let us leave without a fight, so I thought it would be best to recruit people who I know to be...
My name is Tobias Eaton, Tobias says. I don't think you want to push me off this train.The effect of the name on the people in the car is immediate and bewildering: they lower their weapons. They exch...
Moths, repeats Will. You're afraid of moths? Not just a cloud of moths, she says, like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and... She shudders and shakes her head.Terrifying, Will...
Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on with you, he says. But if you senselessly risk your life again -- I am not senselessly risking my life. I am trying to make , like my parents would hav...
I think that are the liar! I say, my voice quaking. You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the avarge person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness,...
I think he came to die with me, I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. W...
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I th...