A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon

Don't be afraid of the dark, it's a place where you can hide.

Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn't done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to...

Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow

I'm scared that you'll make me love you…and then you'll leave me.

"How about this then." Chase shifted on the bed. Even without looking, Connie knew he was leaning over earnestly, his brilliant, lying black eyes full of sincerity. "I've missed you desperately. I'm...

I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet to wake up from. The vice principle is insane. My own uncle is insane. Those stupid kids are insane....

I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie - shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

"Of course they were eaten," he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. "Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians."

It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.

Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

But then it was over too quickly and they pulled away. She knew they couldn't stand there and kiss like a couple on the run in a thriller.

Gavin! What'll I wear home?""Cloak." His voice roughened and he ripped harder, tossing the material to the ground. I felt his smile when he kissed my neck, and shivers ran down my back at the sound of...

Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus of sarcastic applause broke out from the nearby hill. Simon, Isabelle, and Alec waved at them. Jace...

Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs?

Now that I've got this to keep me safe off the island, I said very quietly, what's to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself? I am, Mab said....

I rode the dinosaur into the stream of zombies following in the Wardens' wake and let her go to town. Sue chomped and stomped and smacked zombies fifty feet through the air with swinging blows of her...

You about done? I asked him. I need the table. "What is it with you people?" Butters groused. "For God's sake, these are real injuries here." "There will be more of them than a thousand reluctant...

Give it to them! Take them down! First Aleran! Kick their furry - - Assault formation!

Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be. She waved her hand. It was shame that drove me to my queen, to beseech her aid. Her long, delicate...

Hazel! he yelled. That box! Open it! She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. The label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. Open it! Leo yelled again.

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo - - as pale and gaunt as he looked - - might be more than he could...

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.