You’re not like other girls,” Aidan said, pressing her back against the cushions of the couch. “You’re cool.” Tana tried to be cool, tried to act as if it didn’t bother her when he flirted with anything that moved – and, that one time, when he was really drunk, with a coatrack.
I guess I knew it wasn’t a game, but I ran anyway and I boosted myself up on the water spigot and poured through the window with the boneless grace of little kids.
If someone were hitting Aaron over the head, he would thank them for stopping.
If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. She’d seen a lot of old movies, and that was definitely the way to go out.
He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things – but that didn’t mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.
I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick.
Everything’s better when you say it in Latin.
They took lots of things they had no right to.
I made you believe that you were what I wanted you to become.
If one of the people who’d gone Cold drank human blood, the infection mutated. It killed the host and then raised them back up again, Colder than before. Cold through and through, forever and ever.
Cosa sarei potuta diventare se avessi smesso di preoccuparmi della morte, del dolore, di tutto? Se avessi smesso di cercare un senso di appartenenza? Invece di avere paura, sarei diventata io quella da temere.
Call’s stomach felt as if it wanted to curl up inside him like a kicked puppy.
We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.
Quests are supposed to change us.
The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing. never the cause of pain.
But if you don’t want to go with them, you’re going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.
CALL REMOVED A small circle of oily pepperoni from his slice of pizza and slid his hand under the table. Immediately, he felt a wash of Havoc’s wet tongue as the Chaos-ridden wolf inhaled the food.
Maybe it isn’t the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you’re not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn’t always being weak.
Holy moly. – Jasper.
No fire at all.