Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right...
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.
Lies require commitment.
Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
Morning, I say.Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
Half of bravery is perspective.
He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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...
I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.
I love you I say.I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
Then everyone can call you Six.Four and Six, I say.
May the peace of God be with you, she says, her voice low, even in the midst of trouble.Why would it? I say softly, so no one else can hear. After all I’ve done...It isn’t about you, she says. It is a...
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.Don't say I never took you anywhere nice, Peter says.Wouldn't dream of it, I say.
It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch.Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something a...
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