young-adult

...You're worried that you're going to go out of here and mess up your lines or trip on your high heels, but you're not. You're going to blow them away, just like you always do. You're a woman who knows what she wants, and you know how to get it. You're going to be the most, Margo, to say the least.

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done._ He winked at Butler.__re you sure you__e at the library? I thought I heard water.__rtemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. __ater? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.___re you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you__e wearing that smug smile of yours.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

The path is here," he said quietly. "But you are free to walk it or choose another way.

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don__ have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I__ headed, I know it__ exactly where I__ supposed to be.

That__ the thing. I__e never met anyone like you, Tess. You think you__e a no one? You__e so wrong. So wrong. You stand in a room with all the Angelas, even the Ellies. None of them can compare to you. I remember when you started working at the Onslow, I couldn__ keep my eyes off you. You were so terrified. You weren__ full of yourself like other girls. Every time you walked into the bar, you were like a breath of fresh air. Even when Angela was a bitch to you, you rose above it. You made me see the difference in people. You__e not a nobody, Tess, you__e a somebody.

We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes were shadowed beneath wispy fringes, but the silver in them glinted like pools of liquid mercury. Her breath caught. It must have made a sound because his fingers tightened. His shaky exhale whispered across her face.__his,_ he whispered so quietly she almost didn__ hear him. __s why you are so bad for me.

I__ always the one who doesn__ have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, __o, is your friend, you know, with someone?_ and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?

Is it not enough to shine,To know that friends are true?That love is born of friendship,And who you are is you?

Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.

And you_ do you know what you are?___tupid?___eautiful,_ he says, his face turning red.

He stabs his fingers through his drying hair and resumes his pacing. __ou think I don__ know this went really fast? I didn__ plan for this to happen. Hell, I didn__ even know if you__ let me talk to you, much less be with you. But then you did and we did and_ He stops in the center of the room and stares at me, his shoulders sagging. __ figured out pretty quick that this is a forever thing for me. I think it has been from the very beginning.

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?