A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold