The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen..

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws..

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being go….

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares..

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing..

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs..

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for….

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sin….

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so….

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone.

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get….

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and elect….

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work..

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy..

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken..

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241).

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed..

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid..

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost..

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next..