Hunted (House of Night, #5)

by P.C. Cast

“Hey, cheer up. Zoey’s grandma didn’t say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their humongous beaks and threw them against a wall or whatever over and over again until every bone in their body was broken,”

“My mama told me don’t trust no white boy, even a pretty one. I’m thinkin’ a pretty white boy with wings explodin’ up from the ground in a mess of blood and ugly-ass bird things is double trouble.”

I watched as Erik took a deep breath. He looked like he was a diver getting ready to jump off a high, dangerous cliff. Then, in one rush, he said, “I love you, Z. All that’s happened between us hasn’t changed that, even when I wanted it to.”

God, it’s exhausting being me.

My response to him is almost automatic, as if my soul recognizes him,

“Believing it is the first step. Acting on it is the second.”

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can’t. I can’t feel anything if I’m not with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don’t think I can ever have, at least not now. So I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

I’m seventeen! I can’t save the world—I can’t even parallel park!

“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore.

“Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own,”

“I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but there is something many of us use, called a cellular telephone. Believe it or not, Dragon and Anastasia each have one.”

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.