young-adult

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success__igger than talent, money, or popularity.

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you_people who are beautiful inside and out_those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

Does this make us the biggest band on the planet or what?_ Burt

Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don__ come from outside sources__hey come from within.

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.

What an almighty balls-up. Who snorts a wasp? No sane person snorts a live wasp. It__ like putting your hand up a tiger__ arse. - Egg

Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.

I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State.

She smiled the most extraordinary smile and Egg knew his life would never be the same again.

She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.

When sober, which he hadn__ been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul.__ook 2 __aving it

Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.

When you are a Protector, in darkness you see the world through different eyes and the line between Beast and Savior is so thin, you find yourself wondering if it was ever there to begin with.The beat of a heart makes your soul ache, instincts so raw fighting them seems futile and until you are marked, the world holds its breath as within you lies the power to destroy them all.

In preparing for this ceremony," Kai said, setting the bouquet on the mantel behind him, "I did some research and learned that the word Alpha has held many meanings across history. Alpha can refer to the first of something," said Kai, "or the beginning of everything. It can be attributed to a particularly powerful or charismatic person, or it can signify the dominant leader in a pack of animals, most notably, of course, wolves." His serious expression tweaked briefly into a teasing smile. "It has meanings in chemistry, physics, and even astronomy, where it describes the brightest star in a constellation. But it seems clear that Ze__v and Scarlet have created their own definition for the word, and their relationship has given this word a new meaning for all of us. Being an Alpha means that you__l stand against all adversity to be with your mate. It means accepting each other, both for your strengths and your flaws. It means forging your own path to happiness and to love.

Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be.

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.