56 quotes found
“I retreat to my room and lock the door. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.”
“Darkness doesn't have fingers that twist into my flesh.”
“But what she feels is sometimes hard to express...Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.”
“I'd waited so long for his kiss, and it was so much more, so much better than I had dared imagine. Golden sunshine burst behind my closed eyelids as I became a being entwined with the sun.His hands...”
“Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you?”
“When he began to play again, then sing those first few words, Aimee felt a flutter in her stomach she wasnt able to squelch. She wasnt a robot, after all. And it wasnt so bizarre to get a little fl...”
“It took me a moment to realize but I was having an epiphany. I was standing in the middle of Times Square wearing nothing but purple tennis sneakers with the laces pulled out, clutching an empty bo...”
“Theres a light pulsing somewhere, its soft, amber glow gently seeping into the delicate skin covering my eyes, pooling in the tiny gullies on either side of my nose. My body feels heavy, burdened w...”
“I can hear someone whispering, like a mother quieting her small child: shhhshhhshhha pregnant pause taking shape and growing between each whisper, bringing life to the next series of sounds. They l...”
“Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.”
“I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them.”
“Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub."Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.”
“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could only be moments away from disaster. That ever...”
“Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, "You have no idea what you do to me.”
“If they ever turn, let them chase me for a while. Its always been afantasy of mine to be chased by zombie cheerleaders.”
“Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.”
“The past and future are whats complicated. Its the present thats simple.”
“Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general”
“Rourk didnt even know her name, but he knew hed never seen anyone so magnificent in his life. Her wavy hair glistened in the sunlight. She had a delicate, round face with large, blue-green eyes and...”
“Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again”
