"What's wrong?" His voice was loud, so sharp that he sounded angry.I knew I should be careful, keep the secret, but I was too far gone to talk around it. My chest was working in huge spasms and I could..."
- Brenna Yovanoff
"Are you waiting for someone to come and get you?” I whisper. I sound small and thirsty. He doesn’t answer. Instead, he bends his head and kisses me, just once, then let’s me go. When Connor would kiss..."
"I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better."
"Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist."
"Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These ar..."
"My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed."
"The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel."
"Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love."
"From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud some..."
"Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giv..."