"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she wa….

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized..

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living..

I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid e….

[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty su….

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully….

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain.

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings..

He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and do….

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction..

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world..

That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless..

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird..

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the wr….

Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, an….

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question..

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble..

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities..

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass..

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer..