Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.
I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.
Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look…” Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. “Leave your cloths on, Tori,” Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. “Please.
Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and… reproduction.
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that’s what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?” The corners of his mouth twitched. “She doesn’t like you very much, does she?
So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.
It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn’t afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first – I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he’d think of me.
I don’t forgive him,” I said.”Hell, no, you don’t. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what’s he done to help you get on with yours?
He said “cool” like I say a Spanish word when I’m not sure of the pronunciation.
You guys are weird,” Tori said.Simon sat on the crate beside me. “That’s right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.
I’m going to need to save you.””Excuse me? No one needs-“”I’m saving you, so shut up and be grateful.
Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren’t crazy. I’d mistaken her kid for a ghost, that’s all.
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
Could you please put this–could you all put these–could you get dressed, please?”The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. “We are as the Goddess requires.””The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?
I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.
Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.
That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.
Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn’t find anyone new? He’ll come slinking back. By then, if you’re smart, you’ll have decided you’re better without him.
I might be half Derek’s size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.
I ran my tongue along the top of his underwear, letting it slide underneath. Then i shifted my body forward, lips moving back up his chest, until i was straddling him again.
As my hair fell free, Cortez entwined his fingers in it and kissed me even harder. Then he slipped one hand from my hair and snapped his fingers over our heads. The lights went out.
My foggy brain slid away and— And I was still dressed in only my bra and panties. Well, at least it’s a nice set of bra and panties. Yep, these were the thoughts going through my brain as I looked at a photo of a decapitated head on my bed.
You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.
He was trying to tell me something.”Derek snorted. “Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
”If you want that kind of thing, call Nick. His advice is shit, but he really likes to give it.
And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.
This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn’t care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.
I have to.I’ve been fighting it all night. I’m going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it’s an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.
Don’t apologize.””I wasn’t-“”Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It’s a choice, Olivia.
What’s next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price… until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we’ve been formally introduced.
Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.
In the meantime, I’ll get a job. I’ll pay my own way.” “A job?” “Mmm, yeah. It’s that thing people do to make money.
A hand touched my shoulder, shaking me. I was back on the bus. It was dark and warm and I just wanted to sleep, but Chloe kept shaking my sho
Tell me half a cup’s worth of story and we’ll call it a night.
I make the choice because it is one I can live with.
As a vampire, you must accept that every person you ever know will die, and you are the only constant in your life, the only person you can—and should—rely on.
…ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.
I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don’t really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.
She looked at me again, and the sweet and shy Nicole disappeared. Her eyes b
Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it’s fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?
If I was crazy, would I know it? That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.
It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home fromAlbany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t preparedto deal with it, move to Miami.
I stopped short and sighed as Derek stepped up behind me, arms sliding around my waist. I leaned back against him and rel
I’d seriously contemplated a real collar – a sparkly green one – if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.
Antonio-“Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she’d have been in a coma.”Peter-“Are we such bad company that you’d rather hide out in here reading that old thing?
He wet a paper towel, and took my chin, lifting and wiping my
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn’t just spring to life at age thirty.