I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

The moment Noah came up behind me and kissed the side of my neck, I was torn between leaning into him and skirting away. Every muscle in my body screamed to fall into him.

The entire population of Blackfin maintained a wary distance from her, as though the skeletons in their closets were spring-loaded and ready to burst out onto the front lawn.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim?