Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?” Hunter’s grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. “Why, that’s adorable!

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

You’ve never had someone you love snatched, ” I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. “Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

In embracing your difficulties is liberation.

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one!

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Don’t be scared... Be positive... Please don’t think that your life is about to end... Take the right advice and act as soon as you can... If there’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it.