Good luck tended to avoid me. Charlie left first, off to the police station that was his wife and family.
Free was harder to trace... safety always trumped guilt.
The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder every step I took away from him. Just my imagination, of course. It was still summer here. It would always be summer here for me.
If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I always want to be with you. And not just... not just to talk to. When you touch me... I don’t want you to stop.
I’d never had a host that was capable of superstition. It was an interesting sensation. Like knowing you were being watched without being able to find the watcher. It raised goose bumps on the nape of my neck.
My host loved Curt’s host, and that love did not die when the ownership of the minds changed.
Sterben ist friedlich, leicht. – Leben ist schwerer.
She’s just a shadow in the corner of your mind.
My relationship with Jacob used to be so easy. Natural as breathing.
Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.
Era senz’altro una bella maniera di morire, sacrificarmi per un’altra persona, qualcuno che amavo.
You are my life now,” he answered simply.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17.
In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds.
I want Jared, not a stranger in his body! The body means nothing without him.
Love her, too?” I whispered, incredulous.
I was a little bit worried when Phil started talking about Akron, what with the snow and everything, because you know how I hate the cold, but now Jacksonville!
Trust me just this once-you are the opposite of ordinary.
You’re the very best part of my life.
With ice in my heart, I watched him prepare to defend me. His intense concentration betrayed no hint of doubt, though he was outnumbered. I knew that we could expect no help – at this moment, his family was fighting for their lives just as surely as he was for ours.