Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.