Michelle Hodkin

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself...I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears. ''What did you do?'' I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door. ''The girl who gave you the note?''''Yes...''''I caught her staring at my lighter.''I blinked. ''You gave a child, in a psych ward , a lighter?''His eyes crinkled at the corners. ''She seemed trustworthy.''''You're sick,'' I said, but smiled.''Hey, nobody's perfect. '' Noah smiled back.

For some reason I think of the first time I saw her, kicking the shit out of the vending machine that refused to release her candy. Before that day, every hour of my life had been exactly like the one before it. Relentlessly boring. Painfully monotonous. But then she walked out of my waking nightmare and into my life, a complete mystery from Second One. Her presence was a problem I needed to solve, a problem that finally interested me. And then, somehow, she made me interested in myself. Mara began as a question I needed to answer, but the longer I'd known her, the less I felt I actually knew. She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn't be enough to ever know her.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.

They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

I was just going to say it reminds me of the symbols on a family crest.__oah stopped mid-stride, and turned very slowly. __e__e not related.___ know, but____on__ even think it.

There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.