Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

You’ve never had someone you love snatched, ” I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. “Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.

Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?” Hunter’s grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. “Why, that’s adorable!

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.