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You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning
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Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.
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Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.
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I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime
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It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.
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Timing is everything.
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That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!"
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A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books....But what was love but pain?
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The more things change, the more they stay different.
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You've won," Jack said softly. He looked at Mimi with such fiery hatred that she almost cowered at his words. But she was no weakling. She was Azrael, and Azrael did not cower, not even to Abbadon. "I've won nothing," Mimi replied coldly. "Please remember that almost all of the Elders are dead, that the Dark Prince is ascendant, and what is left of the Conclave is being led by a broken man who used to be the strongest of us all. And yet all..
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For a moment she was truly terrified. This was Abbadon the Cruel. The Angel of Destruction. He could and would destroy her if he had to. If he felt like it. He had destroyed worlds before. He had decimated Paradise in the name of the Morningstar. She trembled in his grasp. All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else. He had adored Gabrielle, had worshiped her, ha..
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Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice.
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You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.
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When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.
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I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours." --Jack Force"
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Inside the church, the bondsmaids were walking slowly down the aisle, with the little petal girls. Trinity turned to give Mimi her last words of motherly advice: 'Walk straight. Don't slouch. And for heavens's sake, smile! It's your bonding!?' Then she too walked through the door and down the aisle. The door shut behind her, leaving Mimi alone. Finally, Mimi heard the orchestra play the first strains of the 'Wedding March.' Wagner. Then the..
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It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was when she accepted him, and the frog turned out to be a prince. But the princess had been unwilling to kiss the frog, the prince remained warty and unloved, and now there was no adventure to be had.
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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature..
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Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness--the subvertio--a spell that unlocked what could not be unlocked, that destroyed what could not be destroyed. There was a rumbling, a shaking, like the strongest earthquake, and the iron gate crumbled, and the path began to melt. the demon shrieked, but Kingsley just looked at Mimi the entire time. "Azrael..."
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Do you ever sense a little silver sliver of sadness around your happiest memories? I'm not sure I know what you mean... I do. There's something about remembering that just isn't the same as the real thing. No matter how happy it makes you feel. When you remember something, you have to recognize that the moment will never happen again.
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You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.
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spoiler> In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the demon, and the Silver Blood. Kingsley was gone. Trapped in Hell for eternity. Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest.
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It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.
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Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables
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I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so...angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured." -Oliver"
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We're the villains you root for in the story.
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We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together.
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I will wait forever," she promised. "However long it takes."
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No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
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Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.
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Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.
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If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours." -Oliver"
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As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
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She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it... -Sky
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They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.
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What happened to your face?' she asked. 'It fell on a fist.' He shrugged. 'That happens a lot?' 'Enough.
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I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you." -Jack"
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I just want us to be together," he said. "I mean, know it's not possible. But why not? [...] Don't you want us to be together? -Oliver"
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I don't know who you are. But I do know that every time I see you, I feel better." -Dylan"
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Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
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As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in her heart broke.
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Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.
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A picture is worth a thousand texts.
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I was so afraid. I was afraid of losing you." "Never, my love. We will always be together." --
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