young-adult

Jealousy is when you want something that you can__ have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending what__ yours._ He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose skimmed up to mine. __nd you better believe that I__l be protecting what__ mine.

My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

He was her moon. He balanced out her tides.

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

Now at first you__l feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won__ feel anything at all.

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

The lights disappear, The elevator shudders, Stalls, Quits. All in the same nanosecond. All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think, And Travis so close I can't breathe.

In the Empire, the Scholars are not allowed to read and, like so many bullies and power-seekers who hide behind ideologies to justify the terrible things they do, their oppressors wear masks. 'An Ember in the Ashes' suggests that such masks (literal or figurative) don__ work. Not forever, anyway. Masks only cover faces. It__ actions that show who we are.

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.

Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?

She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.