That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?”“Guess so.”“I hope you showed it who is boss.”“Yeah, I peed on it.

Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn’t setting the standard very high." -Ember, Darkness Of Light

It’s a little early in our relationship for us to be ‘surmounting, ’ but, hey, I’m game if you are. I’ll even let you be on top.” He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips.

Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone, ” I commented to Ryan.“Or just one with a boner.

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

All these boys were lethal. It really wasn't fair.

If you want to be a writer-- stop talking about it! Sit down and write. -Jackie Collins

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.