Alexandra Bracken
We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.Collection: Mistake
I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.Collection: Leave Me Alone
If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.Collection: Heart
Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.Collection: Depth
Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.Collection: Eye
The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.Collection: Giving
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.Collection: Eye
Clancy had taught me well.Collection: Taught
But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.Collection: Encouragement
Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.Collection: Sorry
No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?Collection: Dark
You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.Collection: Wind
He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.Collection: Girl
It's in our blood to start again.Collection: Blood
Up! you bag of bones!" "Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! "She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??Collection: Beautiful
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.Collection: Love
I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.Collection: Sorry
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.Collection: Long
He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.Collection: Girl
Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-Collection: Art
Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?Collection: Hair
Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.Collection: Memories
You are actually the worst person I have ever met.Collection: Worst Person
I was just an okay person.Collection: Okay
Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.Collection: Mean
I can't make it fade.Collection: Fades
Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.Collection: Real
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.Collection: Kids
Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.Collection: Sorry
The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.Collection: Important
Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.Collection: Way
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.Collection: Yesterday
Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CGCollection: Running
Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.Collection: Love
Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?Collection: Jobs
We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.Collection: Winning
Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.Collection: Giving
I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —JudeCollection: Shadow
Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.Collection: Kissing
When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boyCollection: Girl
Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.Collection: Used
So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.Collection: Believe
I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.Collection: Littles
Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.Collection: Trying
Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.Collection: Morning
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.Collection: Way
Yes, you are,” Chubs agreed. “But you’re our idiot, so be more careful next time.” “Cosigned,” Liam said, hooking his fingers over mine on top of the armrest.Collection: Next
I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.Collection: Memories