Michelle Hodkin

It doesn__ matter what we are. It matters what we do.

I pointed to a low bowl filled with what purported to be stew, but then Noah said, __re you goingto point, or are you going to eat?___ just like to know what I__ putting in my mouth before I swallow.__oah arched an eyebrow, and I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

He shrugged. __ have a stomach thing. Don__ get close.___ell, now you__e spoiled everything,_ I said casually, working hard to fake it. __ was planning to seduce you in the broom closet._ I pointed. __ight there.__ joyless smile appeared on Jamie__ lips. __e are far too screwed-up for a goddamned lovetriangle.__hat__ my Jamie.

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

Why?' He asked.'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.

What would you do if I kissed you right now?"I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back.

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.

The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrongs ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.

If I were to live a thousand years, Iwould belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.

Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"Jamie shook his head. "Not it. Sharks, first of all, and second of all, sharks"- The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.

You__e so calm,_ I said out loud. __t__ like you don__ need it._ Need me, I didn__ say. But I could tell by the way his delinquent smile softened that he knew what I meant.Noah moved forward, toward me, next to me then, the slender muscles in his arms flexing with the movement. ____ not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name.