young-adult

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

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.

Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

I understand that you want to have fun. That you like to distract yourself from life by going and doing these ridiculous things and laughing the whole time while you do them. I know you want to pretend that everything__ okay by trying your best to act normal, but I don__. I want to sit in this house and mope around and be sad and revel in the fact that my life is complete shit from here on out.

Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I__l either be an outlaw, or I__l be dead.

Please, Tommy. Please

You can't let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost.

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I__ trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.

With his height, Caleb looked over their heads toward his cousin and_his throat tightened. There in a yellow dress that emphasized the elegant line of her shoulders and a new hair cut that accentuated the shape of her face stood the most exquisite girl to have ever graced the Dodge Cove elite with her presence.

...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.