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Sex is about physical attraction, yes, but it's also about trust. I don't trust you. You're completely self-absorbed and egoistic. You offer nothing I want.
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northern San Diego. The white stucco walls rose, interrupted by huge windows. The whole structure nearly floated off the pavement, sleek, modern, and somehow light, almost delicate. The salt-spiced wind blowing from the coast less than a mile away only strengthened the illusion. He'd
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Doolittle once told me that he wasn't afraid of me. He was afraid of what I might become in spite of myself. His fears were coming true. "Power"
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It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really." The"
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Johns Hopkins, which was a trip I was doing my best to forget. We almost died, and while we were away, a local family we knew was murdered. Julie and Derek had handled it, but thinking about it still turned my stomach. The
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She was pretty sure that if you died in the South, you'd have a layover in Atlanta before you reached the afterlife. But
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I ordered four eggs and my new friend ordered some doughnuts. We both stayed away from sausage. Unless you knew the restaurant well and trusted the cook, ordering ground meat was a bad idea, because for some places "beef" was a code for rat meat. The"
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Blood of my blood they might not be, but heart of my heart they will be.
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Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers. She was desperate to forget that she was little
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Look into my eyes and despair. For I'm Punishment, and you cannot escape me.
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Well, he took it worse than I did," Curran said. "I don't see what the big deal is." "It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate." I shrugged. Landon stared at me through the windshield, turned around, paced back and forth, and stared at me again. "Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt." Curran smiled. "If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with fe..
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One does not simply ring Roland." Oh"
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I pointed at Ascanio. "Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor."
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karves,
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She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
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Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. They'd stop poaching if people stopped buying.
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Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
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I like that you're jealous." "Rogan, put the car back." "Come to dinner with me tonight and I'll consider it."
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Fear not the darkness Fear not the night You are not forsaken We remember you The
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Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.
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Love and hate are both means of emotional control to which we subject ourselves. Once you were done with me, you'd want to be free of the pain of betrayal. Absolutely free.
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earnest.
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His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I'm not it." "A can-I girl?" Andrea frowned. I leaned back. " ' Can I fetch you your food, Your Majesty? Can I tell you how strong and mighty you are, Your Majesty? Can I pick out your fleas, Your Majesty? Can I kiss your ass, Your Majesty? Can I . . ." It dawned on me that Raphael was sitting very still. Frozen, like a statue, his gaze fixed on the point above my head. "He's standing behind me, is..
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It's this beautiful thing you can never reach. No matter what you do, you'll never touch it. You can only look and imagine what it would be like to hold it.
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Most men got married because they were comfortable where they were, and breaking free was too hard and too unpleasant.
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when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.
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Chyort poberi, you
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When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty.
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You must understand the nature of a thing before you can end its existence.
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I don't mind being a bit like you. I hope you don't mind being a bit like me.
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Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.
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He'd have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.
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I did some thinking." "That is a very dangerous pastime," Ghastek said."
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You sent an assassin to kill a baby," I said. "A baby. My best friend's daughter." "If it helps, I wavered before issuing the order."
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Father, you are sending mixed signals. You dispatched a woman to murder me today and now you're upset about my wedding reception?
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Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.
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Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.
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Clothes don't have magic powers. They don't mystically protect you from three-inch claws, rapists, or murderers. If someone decides to hurt you, they will do so whether or not you have a thin layer of denim over your skin.
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her scent made him want to whine like a puppy because he had to stay away.
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Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...
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The endars were peaceful creatures. The green fur wasn't fur at all; it was moss that grew from their skin. They lived underneath old oaks, rooted to the big trees in a state of quiet hibernation, absorbing their nutrients and making rare excursions to the surface to lick the bark and feed on lichens. They stirred from their rest so rarely that pagan Slavs thought they fed on air.
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For a second she struggled between proving to me that I was full of shit and wanting to show off her adult knowledge. The need to impress won. "Yeah. The man puts his stuff..." "Penis." "...penis into the woman." "And what happens at the end?" "Orgasm." "And what causes orgasm in a man?" Kate Daniels, the sex-ed specialist. Kill me, somebody. "Uhhh...?" "Sperm comes out. He ejaculates." "That's how you get pregnant." She nodded. "Now rememb..
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Derek, never ever tell a woman that someone is prettier than her. You'll make an enemy for life.
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