A garden of soda bottles filled with water grew by his feet.
The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn’t had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter.
How appropriate it was that Ronan, left to his own devices, manifested beautiful cars and beautiful birds and tender-hearted brothers.
It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.
When you had as little money as the Sargents did, sensibility in all matters was ingrained young. In.
I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted.
I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. And.
Humans have always been fascinated by mirrors, after all.
You have to stop giving things away. You didn’t sacrifice your mind. Start choosing to keep your thoughts your own.
Her face was unfamiliar, all mirth scrubbed from it. She wasn’t crying. Her eyes were worse than crying, though. He wondered how long she had been carrying this. His heart was thudding. He’d gotten it right. One of them was supposed to die.
Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.
I hear if you want magic done,′ he said, ’you ask a magician.
The world’s a nightmare.
It looked like this thing might actually get fixed, where this thing was the apocalypse.
She scowled at Gwenllian. Blue was very short and Gwenllian was very tall, but Blue very much wanted to scowl at Gwenllian and Gwenllian seemed intent on being scowled at, so they made it work.
I blinked until my eyes were clear. I was glad Cole wasn’t here. He thought that I was some sort of iron maiden and I didn’t like to convince him otherwise. Only Sam was allowed to see what a mess I really was, because Sam knowing felt like me knowing.
Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.
You have to take it off the table,′ Jeremy said, finally. ‘It’s always going to be an option, otherwise. You’re going to have to give it up and mean it, or it’ll always be your solution when things go bad.
He rolled his eyes luxuriously at her. It was like he merely absorbed her anger, saving it all up for when he needed it for himself.
I’ve been trying,” Noah said. He added: “I don’t want to watch you die.