Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.

Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

I want him everywhere. I burn for him in places he hasn't even touched.

Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.

I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

We experience a new life with divine encounter.

I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler.

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?