I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?

If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

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