young-adult-fiction

I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven

We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ...

I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty.""Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started.""Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.

I__l always love you, no matter what happens, okay?

Because you__e beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Congratulations," she said. "You win.

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate__ clothes, but it didn__ make me Kate.

Finally, her father spoke. __re you sure? I mean, I don__ understand how this could have happened. She__ only fifteen; I didn__ even know she was sexually active._ Mallory__ father, normally in control, was on the verge of tears. He refused to look at his daughter, his little girl. As much as he had preached abstinence to her, he still kept a watchful eye over her, yet here they were, facing the unthinkable. He wanted to know when this happened, and with whom__ut those questions would have to wait.

I like that girl more than I can remember likin_ anything in my life. I__ not about to give her up. I__l start carin_ about what other people think when I__ six feet under.

I have to protect you,_ he says softly.

The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.

Oh._ My dad actually looked sheepish. __t__ one o__lock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn__ realise what was going on in here.___hat__ going on in here?_ Cameron asked suspiciously.__aturity._ My dad backed out of the room and closed the door.

They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

What__ with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.___ suspect I am a hooligan.

Don__ try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.___ hate you, too.

Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.