154 quotes found
Writer · American · 1974
American writer (born 1974)
“Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.”
“She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”
“Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out...”
“What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple ...”
“I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "Y...”
“I have never been one to fall when I can jump.”
“I don't understand boys.”
“Its Vermeer"Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen""What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he ...”
“I sprung you because I've got a message for you""doesn't your family own a cell phone company?""only a little one”
“And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.”
“So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to d...”
“She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”
“'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?”
“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
“You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier...”
“But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.”
“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s thebody’s physical response to imminent harm.It is the mind’s way of telling us to move ourhand off the stove or let go of the brokenglass.”
“Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.”
“I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can s...”
“Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows."Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell.""I let myself in; hope that's okay."Hale smiled. "Or the alarm."She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of...”
