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I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.
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But Mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.
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When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.
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Aren't you a little young to be a captain? Not that I'm sure you weren't wonderful at it," I added hastily, "but Frank's got to be your same age, and Mr. Graces and Mr. Liu are both older than you. How on earth did it happen?" He shut down. It was like a curtain being pulled across a window. This was a subject he definitely did not wish to discuss. "The title is honorary," he said, not meeting my gaze. "I can't stop them calling me that, ev..
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Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the one who got it off me," she said."
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He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." [......] "Wait," Meena said, blinking. " Are you saying....." "Yes," Alaric said. "That is exactly what I'm saying." Jon looked blank. "I don't understand. Is he the devil or not?" "Lucien Antonescu," Alaric said. "is a vampire. Not just any vampire, but the ruler of a..
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I thought you were bringing me back. Forever." He looked puzzled. "Why would I do that, when I waited almost two centuries to find you?" As he spoke, he reached out to take me by the waist and pull me against him, then lowered his mouth to mine and kissed me with a thoroughness that left no doubt in my mind that he had no intention of abandoning me anywhere. "John," I said a little breathlessly, when he let me up for air. "Maybe it would be..
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Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.
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It's seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days..." he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. "...at least until I found you."
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It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine.
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I know you," he added, helping to arrange the blanket over my shoulders. "You won't drop the subject until I agree to check on your cousin, so I'll do it. But only under one condition." " ," I said, whirling around to clutch his arm again. "Don't get too excited," he warned. "You haven't heard the condition." "Oh," I said, eagerly. "Whatever it is, I'll do it. Alex has never had a very good life-his mother ran away when he was a baby, and..
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but you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist," --
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I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.
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Life is not a romance novel
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C'est la vie
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So I got to witness firsthand how those metal links got broken. The muscles in his upper arms pumped to the size of grapefruits, and the fabric of the T-shirt tightened around them almost to tearing... Then the metal gave way with a musical twang, and the chain snaked noisily from the grate, falling to the rain-softened earth with a clunk. "By all means," John said, brushing his hands together in a self-satisfied way, "let's call Mr. Smith...
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It's my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there's a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it's on with the happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He's an actual PRINCE.
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Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home. Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?
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You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way...
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People everywhere pray for a job where they can "work from home," so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of these jobs, they keep themselves from spending the entire day going on YouTube and looking at videos about baby deer that have been adopted by golden retrievers. Because that's all I've accomplished today so far."
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That's not all they ever show," John said. "They show your heart's desire...what you most want to see-or who-at the time you're looking." "Then mine must be broken," I said. It made sense. Why wouldn't mine be broken? I was broken, too. Or at least I hadn't felt normal in a long time. "Yours isn't broken," John said. "Considering it's a mobile device from earth, and no mobile device from earth has ever functioned in the Underworld before, I..
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No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative." "No offense taken," John said mildly."
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My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancee, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.
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I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.
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To keep one's marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash"
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Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...."
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đọc
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susannah-simon
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It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.
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Don't ever let them tell you that you're too stupid to do something. I'm not saying it's going to be easy for you, the way it was for you mom. Maybe you're going to have to work for it a little harder than other people, which I know isn't fair. But that doesn't mean you should just give up. Because if you do that, then where will you be?
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I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm- Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it.
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Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.
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No one's future is certain. It depends on the choices they make.
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Am I really not worth shaving for?
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Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing, but you. Unfortunately, I will have to remain in my self-inflicted prison a bit longer, since work will keep me from meeting you tonight. I can't seem to find a way to avoid this... however, I hope this gift will make up for my unforgivable behavior. I saw this and though of you, and St. George. You have slain the dragon. Until we m..
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I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn't ever give you more than you can handle, but I'm telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!
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I kind of was beginning to feel like I was being underutilized [as Teen Ambassador to the UN]. I mean, there were a lot more important issues out there for teens that I could have been bringing international attention to than what kids see out their windows. I mean, instead of sitting in the White House press office for three hours after school every Wednesday, or attending International Festival of the Child concerts, I could have been out..
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Guys don't like it when you get too heavy, I've noticed. They especially don't like it when you try to talk too much about the future. They're like little woodland animals. Everything's well and good when you're just doling out the nuts and everything's cool. But the minute you bring out the net to try to catch them - even if it's for their own good, like to help them escape a forest fire - all hell breaks loose.
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His gaze on mine was completely steady and unblinking, and there was an upward curl at the corners of his mouth . . . he was smiling like he was actually enjoying this. But I couldn't help feeling as if, behind those blue eyes, there was a different Christopher - the old Christopher - begging me to call him on his asinine behavior. To say, I'm asking for your help now. Will you help us? Will you help me? Only I didn't. Because I was too ang..
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Rule #5 Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good.
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It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance."
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Of course I didn't think I'd heard him correctly. Why would he have told me something so important now, so casually, in the middle of a Before I could stop myself, I blurted out the first thing I thought. "Just " The look he gave me was shattering. Given everything I knew about him, though, I'd him to have killed a man. It was the fact that his having taken a single life had resulted in his banishment to the Underworld for all eternity ..
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Well," I said, trying to keep my tone light as I walked over to put my arms around his neck, though I had to stand on my toes to do so. "That wasn't so bad, was it? You told me something about yourself that I didn't know before-that you didn't, er, care for your family, except for your mother. But that didn't make me hate you...it made me love you a bit more, because now I know we have even more in common." He stared down at him, a wary loo..
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everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else." "This sucks," Alex said sullenly. "If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you."
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Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
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I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many "feels" as the kids on Tumblr--my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it--often say."
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