According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.

We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper."Are you getting your ax?""Handcuffs.""Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.

I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist.

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Patience will be on our side.” “I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren