French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.