“ Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school...”

“Youre going to tell me that last night shouldnt have happened.No. Im glad it happened. For too long, Ive been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have...”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people Id loved the most in the world, the ones Id always told all my secrets to, the ones Id wanted to hide with far away fro...”

“But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the destiny my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”