Rachel Vincent
I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.Collection: Boston
When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.Collection: Hard
And you still love Marc?" "More than I can even explain. He's my rock—strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need before I know it, and he pushes me to work harder, and look deeper, and be better. He challenges me, and infuriates me, and he lights me on fire, deep in my soul. And he has never, ever let me down. Sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping my heart beating. I love him so much that it feels like I'm dying a little bit every day that he won't smile at me. Or touch me.Collection: Strong
But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.Collection: Uncles
Not even if you fed me your firstborn, still wet and screamingCollection: Feds
He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.Collection: Hair
The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.Collection: Eye
Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luckCollection: Girl
Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. "I've got you," Tod whispered in my ear.Collection: Strong
Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.Collection: Regret
Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.Collection: Ems
Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.Collection: Girl
Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.Collection: Color
Kaylee, you're adding two and two and coming up with seven.Collection: Two
Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there wasn't actually anything to shelterme from. "We were just circlin' the wagons, not having an orgy." My dad suddenly looked like he might be sick. "Please don't ever say that word again." "Wagons?Collection: Dad
But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were.Collection: Heart
Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?Collection: Men
I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.Collection: Cute
Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.Collection: Amusement
When mice run, cats give chase.Collection: Hilarious
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.Collection: Mother
Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.Collection: Nice
Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray’s body to open the back passenger-side door. “Yeah, well, I’m not your standard enforcer.Collection: Doors
Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.Collection: Order
I think we should all earn our place in the world. [...] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.Collection: Thinking
I liked that about her. I liked how laid back she was, when she wasn’t trying to stab me.Collection: Trying
I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.Collection: Twins
It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!Collection: Use
Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.Collection: Dad
I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.Collection: Heart
And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.Collection: Crazy
Change your mind about playing doctor?" "No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute.Collection: Cute
Of every moment I've ever not-lived through, this one is the bestCollection: Moments
If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries." "Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with the understatements now?Collection: Ocean
His gaze burned into mine, like he could see past my eyes into parts of me no one had ever seen, and I knew I was seeing the same in him. No one else had ever seen him so vulnerable before, like if I pushed him away, he might crumble into pieces that could never be put together again. Yet there was strength, too. He was strong beneath that fragile need, and I knew that I could never fall with him next to me. If I tripped, he would catch me. If I lost my balance, he would find it.Collection: Strong
Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.Collection: Dramatic
Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.Collection: Thinking
I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?Collection: Art
"No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call."Collection: Brother
Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.Collection: Might
If you live in the dark long enough, you start to forget what light looks like.Collection: Dark
"I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"Collection: Thinking
For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-" "I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?Collection: Cereal
Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. "I'm not scared of her. I can handle myself." "Yeah, and hissing kittens think they're badass too," Sabine said.Collection: Badass
"I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that won’t be half as much fun as this is…" His hand slid down my side and over my hip, and my heart beat faster.Collection: Fun
Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked.Collection: Doors
It's suspiciously quiet in here, and there's a Tod shaped dent in the bean bag. For the sake of both my sanity and my temper, I'm going to pretend I can't tell that you're in his lap, so could you pretend that this is still my house and you are still my daughter, and I'm within my parental rights to kick your boyfriend out after 11:00 p.m.?Collection: Daughter
My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab.Collection: Fighting
He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat.Collection: Hands