Blend in. don't make waves. Don't look up.' That was the mantra I lived by. But not today.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
Right. You're Kali. Of course you're planning a rescue mission. Stupid self-sacrifice is kind of your thing.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
It figured--the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I'd realized.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
I had my knife in hand before I realized I'd reached for it and had kicked open the...front door before it ever occurred to me that it might have already been unlocked.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
You're a very pretty girl...Did you know? Once upon a time, I had a pretty, pretty boy.' She reached forward and touched my cheek with one manicured hand.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward.... 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature who could defy the laws of physics--straight out of the pages of mythology...In that one moment, the entire landscape of scientific investigation was drastically and irrevocably changed. The impossible became a widespread scientific reality, as omnipresent as gravity and in some cases, nearly as hard to see.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
I heard the telltale sound of scales scraping against metal--a light swoosh, a tongue flickering out to taste the stale and humid air. Whatever it was, my prey was tasting for me.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
She'd let me in, and for the first time, I actually wanted to do the same, to tell someone the truth. That I wasn't normal. That I wasn't human.
Jennifer Lynn BarnesTag: ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy
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