The boy doesn’t wink, but he gives me the kind of smile that goes with one.
There were always a million ways a job could go wrong, but only one way for it to go right.
I can’t help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred, but still standing. I’m not thinking as I reach up and gently run a finger across his battered face.
When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.
I have heard this all before. I have done this all before. I have ignored this all before.
But why?” Maddie sounded like someone who had been waiting her entire life to ask that question. She looked like someone who would wait a lifetime more for an answer.
I don’t play any game that I can’t win.
She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.
I never did anything to you, Grace! I never did anything at all. I’ve been trying to be your friend since we were six years old, but I’m not good enough for you, I guess. I’ve never been good enough for you.
Megan wanted to be friends with me? I think back on all the times the two of us were thrust together: companions of last resort. I always thought she resented having to come play with me. And as a result, I hated having to play with her. But maybe we were both wrong. Maybe we were just two proud and stubborn little girls who were just too proud and stubborn.
That is the palace’s facial-recognition program chronicling everyone who entered the gala last night.” Megan leans back and crosses her arms. She knows that we’re impressed. She is impressed. And I have to admit she has every right to be.
Megan is coming down the street, and when she sees me and Lila together, for a split second it looks like she wants to run. Save herself. And I can’t say I blame her.
They stayed in the Shadows. But shadows are the perfect place from which to watch, to see.
I find there is a lack of international intrigue at the moment. – Rosie.
Megan’s voice is harder. She’s challenging authority, and I instantly regret letting her become my friend. It’s maybe the worst thing I could have done to her.
Of course I believe in ghosts. I just don’t think they’d waste their time haunting an Island where no one ever goes.
I see the gun. I can feel it in my hand.
They tried to make you forget – to tell you you were seeing things, misremembering things. But you have always known.
Noah learned how to please everyone.” Lila pierces me with a glare. “I learned there’s no use trying to please anyone.
According to my sources,” Megan says, which I’m pretty sure is code for I hacked into the police mainframe, but please don’t tell my mom...