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9cfb0bd
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I can just imagine what the humidity has done to my hair. I'm going to meet your family looking like a poodle with a live wire shoved up its butt." - Paige Winterbourne"
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humour
paige-winterbourne
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Kelley Armstrong |
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b4af12e
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Hello, Aaron," Brigid said, sliding up to him and running a finger down his chest. "You're looking good . . . as always." Aaron lifted her finger off his shirt and let it drop. "Put some clothing on, Brigid." She smiled up at him. "Why? Tempted?" "Yeah, to cover my eyes."
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Kelley Armstrong |
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9e54a43
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Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse
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Kelley Armstrong |
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9b730de
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How long could we do this before you started bitching?" Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. "What?" "We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know." I looked at him. "If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot."
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Kelley Armstrong |
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e7005cc
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You will leave her alone," Gabriel said. "One way or another." "That sounds like a death threat, Walsh." "Then you lack imagination." --
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kelley-armstrong
james
gabriel
threat
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Kelley Armstrong |
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1532604
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There is no freedom from the prison of the mind
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Kelley Armstrong |
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7c6c064
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Let's just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting menages a trios... and menages a quartre, and menages a ... whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas
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Kelley Armstrong |
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3dedec0
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I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas
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Kelley Armstrong |
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c0b9222
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I spend four years chasing the guy of my dreams, finally get him, and now I have to compete with a gorgeous, twenty-year-old supernatural sex fiend. ~Jaime Vegas
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Kelley Armstrong |
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adb0845
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She hasn't been on a date in six months,' Derek rumbled behind us. 'No offense, but as long as you aren't related to her, you're fair game. Hell, even-' Tori spun on him. 'I didn't know.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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aa6c26a
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Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?"
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humour
love
elena
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Kelley Armstrong |
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318ed9b
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Dah-lin.
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sexy
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Kelley Armstrong |
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b33b01e
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Canada?" Ash said. "You didn't say it was in Canada. "I said Ontario." (Maya) "I thought you meant Ontario, California." "Seriously?" Tori said,rolling her eyes. "A helicopter to California? You may be hot,but your sister clearly inherited all the brains in the family." "Did she call me hot?" Ash whispered to me, looking more annoyed than he ever did when someone called him a jerk. "She hasn't been on a date in six months", Derek rumbled be..
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Kelley Armstrong |
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0202b66
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so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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8a1964e
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The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
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humour
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Kelley Armstrong |
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0436f07
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While his three eldest sons spent their adult lives toiling to improve the family fortunes, who had Benicio named as his heir? The illegitimate youngest son who had devoted adult life to destroying the family business, or at least buggering it up real good. Does this make sense to anyone besides Benicio? Of course not. Either the man is a mastermind of family manipulation or just plain fucked in the head. I don't use that word much, but i..
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Kelley Armstrong |
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5a3e360
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His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note of accentuation.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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e48c6dc
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No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.
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rayne
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Kelley Armstrong |
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0ed7c01
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Is that a no?" I said. "No. I mean.." He struggled for the smile again. "I'm just waiting for the punch line. Something about making it date so I need to pay. Or you expecting flowers. Or.." He trailed off. "There isn't a punch line," I said. I rose onto my knees and inched over, in front of him. Then I stopped about a foot away. "No punch line, Daniel," I said. "I'm asking if you'll go out with me." He didn't answer. Just reched out, his ..
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moment
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Kelley Armstrong |
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32dc611
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We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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ee50327
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Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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88b8b0d
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Yes, you're sleeping in my apartment," I said. "On my sofa. It was an exciting night, but not that exciting. I'd really hope you'd remember if it had been."
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sex-joke
sleepover
olivia
gabriel
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Kelley Armstrong |
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c35ceee
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Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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439e6a9
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Got something!" one of the men yelled. "Is it Mike?" another called, rushing from our sides. As everyone converged on the scene, Nick's voice rang out, choked with barely contained laughter. "Forget it. It's--uh--nothing important." "What the hell do you mean?" the first man said. "Maybe this is all a joke to you, son, but. . ." The rest of the sentence trailed off as we burst into the clearing to find one of the searchers bending over a ri..
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Kelley Armstrong |
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8af045f
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And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won't get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas
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Kelley Armstrong |
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dedaeba
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Headache, hmm?" His expression went serious. "Do you know what's the best cure for that?" "What?" "Orgasm." He said it so matter-of-factly I had to sputter a laugh. "Multiple, if possible," he continued. "It's a proven medical fact that one physiologic event, like orgasm, can cancel out the effects of another physiological process, such as a headache." His expression was perfectly serious, but I said, "You're full of shit." "Perhaps. If so,..
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jamie-vegas
jeremy
orgasm
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Kelley Armstrong |
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1b83444
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Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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de03005
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I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.
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maya-delaney
thought-s-on-love
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Kelley Armstrong |
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56d874d
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Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.
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monstrous
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Kelley Armstrong |
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ef23693
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We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck or no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say..." Rafe began. "Yes. And don't ask"
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Kelley Armstrong |
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3f32227
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Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.
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kelley-armstrong
lawyer-jokes
omens
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Kelley Armstrong |
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83cfd14
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Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige"
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Kelley Armstrong |
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80892d2
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It was long past lunch time, but there were people at nearly every table, more milling around with trays. I stayed back just inside the door and scanned the sea of faces. Beside me, Simon murmured. "One, two, three--" "There," I grunted and strode toward Chloe's table. "Damn," he said as he jogged to keep up. "Three seconds. That's a record." I scowled at him. "What?" he said. "It's cute." My scowl deepened. "So cute," he said, grinning. "I..
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Kelley Armstrong |
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d06ddb4
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Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron."
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sarcasm
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Kelley Armstrong |
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feb9adf
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Sex, a switchblade, and motorcycle lessons. You really are making sure my night ends on a high note.
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humor
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Kelley Armstrong |
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5c37116
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Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I've learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas
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Kelley Armstrong |
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240231d
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I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.
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funny
backpacking
lost-identity
olivia
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Kelley Armstrong |
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13ba871
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That's trouble. The pixies will sour your milk." "I thought it was hobgoblins who soured milk." "A dirty lie. Spread by the pixies, no doubt."
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humor
olivia
pixies
patrick
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Kelley Armstrong |
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fc2f3bc
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In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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2dce991
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Even when I encountered racism outside Salmon Creek, it usually rolled off me. The worst of it often came from rednecks whipping past in rusted pickups. I looked at them and I looked at me-class leader, track star, straight-A student- and their slurs about dirty Indians and drunk Indians and dumb Indians were laughable. Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in lifethat they feel the need to lift themselves ..
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Kelley Armstrong |
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bad8d99
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It's so easy to screw up. To make a choice that seems right. Then time passes and you look back and you say, 'How the hell did I do that?' Attitudes change. Insights change. Eventually things you were so damned sure were right become...incomprehensible.
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Kelley Armstrong |
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4c07db1
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The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, "I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that." "I'm not trying to be sweet," Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. "I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that."
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Kelley Armstrong |
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d6d9609
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When the plague struck Chicago, the townspeople here erected the gargoyles, and nary a soul was lost to the Black Death." "The bubonic plague predates Chicago by about five hundred years." He lowered himself to the bench. "I know. I was very disappointed when I found out. Almost as bad as when I learned there were no fairies. The world is much more interesting with goblins and plagues." "Unless you catch the plague."
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gargoyles
magic-and-mystery
olivia
gabriel
plague
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Kelley Armstrong |
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57d1bb6
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Archangel or hound from hell . . . with Gabriel, it depends on the day.
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Kelley Armstrong |