I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued.

Just then they were both vulnerable, and the only thing standing between them and our enemies, was me.It seemed nobody wanted to take those odds because no one approached. I was mildly flattered.

She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me.Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even.

Ugh. I do not miss being your age." Sarah muttered, retracting her hand and wrinkling her nose. "It's like all teenagers have hormones coming out of their ears.

The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?

He was slowly starting to recover. I could tell by the eye roll and sigh. Oh, so only he could be a comedian?

They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.

Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time.

Same. I don't like to think I might have ended up in Plumber's gang, but given the alternative..."I raised both eyebrows. "Yeah. Drug-dealers or super-powered psychopaths? Choices, choices.

Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

The way communication works is changing.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.