I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.
Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.
I don’t trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn’t the same as being good.
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
Oh,” she said, in a very different way. “Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I’d love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.
Foul!” yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. “Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.
Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you’ll steal Nick’s powers and kill them both,” said Mae. “Great idea. Hey, can i come? I’ll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
I saw you put rice in a toaster once,” said Mae. “I was there when made the tin of beans explode.””It was faulty,” Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. ” I am sure of this.
I realise people exist who don’t read. But it’s like I knew there were people who didn’t breathe or eat: I can’t imagine a life like that.
Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face’ -Nick
In two words,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.
Friends don’t menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?
I don’t lie to you,” Alan said. “I lie WITH you.”Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing.Alan went red. “So I’ve just realized how that come out. Uh.
Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?”Sin: “Clive, I was with you from ‘I’m a social worker.
Oh, Alan Ryves,” she said. “You’re such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.
I don’t have deal breakers,” Alan said. “I look on tempests, and am never shaken.
Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.
Kami,” he said, “you’re crying.” “No, I am not,” Kami lied. “I got something in my eye.””You got something in your eye.””Yes. Possibly a speck of dust,” Kami said, and broke down. “All right, possibly my feelings.
Also, vampires don’t eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I’d rather die.
I want to burn the world because Alan is gone,” he said. “I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.
There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.
She looked defeated, a castle stormed, torn down, with no one living inside. She looked like a hollowed-out creature, only shell and no soul.
She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn’t broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
You’re dressed for dancing,” she said in her throaty stage voice. “Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn’t think Merris would like it.
I don’t have your way with words “Sin said. “So I’m just going to go with a quick response. Ha
Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together.
Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes.”That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.
I don’t think he likes girls”, I said. “Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn’t look like a people person.
You are the greatest achievement of your own life.
Kami got to school the next day without any incidents like being kidnapped by pirates or having the earth open up and swallow her, which on the whole Kami thought was a pity.
Maybe he likes the look of Mae,” Nick drawled.”Don’t be ridiculous.”Nick raised his eyebrows. “Does he like the look of Jamie?
Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald’s trust and pass us information about Celeste’s plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. “Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.
Oh no, Nick” Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, “how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.
You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.
There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.
Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale’s head.
I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’
You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I’m currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.
Personally, I’d prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.
Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.
Mae’s first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.
Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?”Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!
If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?
I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it
Forest deep, silent bellsThere’s a secret no one tellsValley quiet, water stillLynburns watching on the hillApples red, corn goldAlmost everyone grows old
It’s normal to like guys who seem to like you; it’s normal to want to be loved.”Kami raised her eyebrows. “I’m sixteen,” she said. “I’m not looking for love.”“Oh,” said Liz. “Uh, what are you looking for?”“Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.
all fiction is better with explosions’ said Jared. ‘Basic fact of life.
Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.
Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!