Ya Quotes

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

When the mind is free, magic happens.

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.

I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.

I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...

Nice shack

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone - a gift from Joseph - as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there’s an app for that.

Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.