#adult

Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh

Listen, I know you just got back, and you’re exhausted, but I need a favor.” Not again… I was looking forward to going home and sleeping for a day, or several. “I have a date tonight?” “A date?” He choked. I didn’t date, and he knew it. “Yeah, with my bed. We were totally going to sleep together.” I said sarcastically. ↗

— Sophie Monroe

#dating

I sort of figured we'd be dating. It makes things like sharing a room a little easier. ↗

— Faith Sullivan

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #dating

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#death

Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#dreams

If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar) ↗

— Kathi Humphries

#adult #thriller #design

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #dreams

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult-fiction #dreams

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning the loss of a dream. "I'm sorry." 'You're not alone, I just wanted you to know that. And someday, when I have my powers back and am free, I'm going to do some serious damage to the people who've hurt you. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#love #paranormal #romance #science-fiction #young-adult

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the Cabinet des Fées. Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer whom history has singled out for attention, but the majority of tales in the Cabinet des Fées were penned by women writers who ran and attended the leading salons: Marie–Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette Julie de Murat, Marie–Jeanne L'Héritier, and numerous others. These were educated women with an unusual degree of social and artistic independence, and within their use of the fairy tale form one can find distinctly subversive, even feminist subtext. ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales-for-adults #feminism #magical-stories #stories #education