It’s nice out tonight. You couldn’t pick a better evening to go and get yourself lost. I mean, look at that moon. Perfect night for going missing, don’t you think?
Maybe I had to exist in constant sadness. She told me to live... I didnt know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.
When I raised my glass to our guests, they shrieked with delight, downing their glasses and then throwing them against the walls. Kriss and I weren’t expecting that and shrugged before tossing ours as well.
What’s this all about?” Anne asked as I closed the door, pressing my ear up against it. “Can you hear anything?” I asked. They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.
I love you America Singer. As long as I live, I’ll love you.-Maxon.
This was why love was terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me.
It was strange because all of the stories were exactly the same and yet completely different.
Lost that war. No hope for retreat now.
But no matter what, I want you to be loved.
His voice was an iceberg, slow and deadly.
Whatever happened, I’d met my person, the one my soul connected to, despite age and distance and impossibility.
I realized I ought to be paying attention, but all of my focus was driven toward keeping a calm and happy expression on my face.
It felt like an eternity had passed since we’d kissed this deeply, but we fell into it so easily.
The girl I met two years ago and the girl I knew now were different.
We’d be Fives together, like you said.
And maybe this is silly, but it’s my country. I get that it’s broken, but that doesn’t mean these anarchists can just come and take it. It’s still mine. Does that sound crazy?
Without looking up at him, I could hear his smile, which only made mine brighter.
Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mild wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.
Mom was making popcorn, as if this were a movie. “Did.
And I couldn’t even deal with that feeling because I had to put on my brave face for my sisters. What had I said it was like? Pulling on a familiar coat? Well, set the coat on fire and fill the pockets with lead. That was what I wore in the face of my sisters.