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I'm willing to abandon the tender embrace of my future mother-in-law for your sake." "About that," Aunt B said. "I'm coming, too." Dead God, the cookie was poisoned."
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I checked his eyes and saw the familiar superiority. He was painfully aware that his world was populated with people of lesser intelligence, and his eyes told me he was regretfully resigned to slumming. Saiman.
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A knockout," Curran said behind me. I jumped in the air about a foot and managed to land with some semblance of dignity. He had managed to sneak up on me again. Time to save face. "Nah. That wasn't a knockout. I just staggered him a bit." "I wasn't talking about the kick, baby."
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Consort," I said. "You honor us." "Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit." I laughed and reached for a potato."
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Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.
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He'd recreated the menu he requested for the naked dinner. Ha! "How did you even know my shoe size?" "I've seen your foot up close." Curran pointed to his chest. "I've seen it here." He moved his hand to his jaw. "Here." He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. "And here." Aha. "Would you like to watch a movie while we eat?" "Sure. What sort of movie?" "It has everything: action, drama, comedy, beautiful soundtrack. Ho..
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People can share in the joke. Nobody can share in your anguish.
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Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.
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What I needed was a big fat clue. A mysterious note laying it all out. A deity popping out of thin air and explaining it to me. Hell, I'd settle for an annoying old lady with a knack for solving mysteries. I actually stopped and waited for a second to see if a clue would fall out of the sky and land at my feet. The Universe declined to oblige.
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Anybody who had a problem with my extra hardware was welcome to make my day.
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The problem with honesty was that it gave your opponent ammunition to use against you.
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I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus," Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me."
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I was still pissed. "What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby."
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You mean he doesn't instantly hero-worship you? Perish the thought." He scowled at me. "I think I'll make mouthing off to the Beast Lord a punishable offense." "Punishable by what? "Oh, I'll think of something."
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I guess Ancient Greeks didn't really have a lot of access to porn so it must've been fun to imagine that every tree hid a meek girl with big boobies.
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Kaldar stopped pacing. It was decided, then. He would marry Audrey. He just had to convince her to see things from his point of view.
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Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips naked at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures.
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hated casinos. The lure of easy money brought out the worst in people. The air smelled of greed, disappointment, and desperation.
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was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and the hungry madness inside her began, she clung to that island
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Being trained as an efficient killer wasn't enough. You also had to learn to control your stress and your fear, becoming so used to violence that you could detach yourself from the trauma of it and assess the level of violence necessary to respond. When the fight-or-flight response kicked in, Mother Nature shut off our brains. It was a biological survival mechanism.
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Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff.
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Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I'd never had an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.
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Most people facing a truck head-on would be scared. He stared her down as if she had insulted him by nearly running him over. Like he was some sort of king of the road.
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He wanted to marry her. "For men like you, 'marriage' sounds a lot like 'sentenced to forced labor in the mines."
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psychopath murders because he can't help himself. They are perpetrating mass murder for no real immediate gain." I stared at him helplessly. "How can you do this to your neighbors? They would have to murder millions of people and for what? It's inhuman." "No, it's human," Curran said. "That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be ..
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He looked her over very slowly. "If I chose to molest you, it wouldn't be an attempt. And you would be most enthusiastic about it."
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In her rare moments of desperation, she wanted a man to look at her like she meant the world to him, and failing that, she would settle for someone who thought she was beautiful and told her
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Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.
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most people would think you were thinking about a girl. They have no idea that her name is bacon.
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Before I take a man into my bed, I need to know him. I want to trust him and like him.
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But we almost died today. It made me realize that I deserve some happiness. And now I don't want just fun.
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There was light in Erra. There was also darkness, and when I looked deep into both, I recognized myself.
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Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement."
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Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement.
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eighteen
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I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let all of it go. No need to hide. Magic flowed through me, intoxicating, heady, seductive. It mixed with my bloodlust and I realized that's how my father must have felt when he led his armies into battle. I was raised by Roland's Warlord. I'd dropped my shackles and they would bow to me.
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I chose to not worry about it," I told him. "I filed it away into the same place keep things like Earth is a globe & ice floats. I'm aware of it, & when I need it, I'll pull it out & dust it off, ... They are my memories. I decide how to view them..."
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Mad shapeshifters ripped into monsters, their eyes crimson with rage. Witches howled, loosing spells and arrows. The air steamed with blood. The clamor of swords, the pain-laced cries of the injured, the screams of shapeshifters, and groans of the dying melded together into an unbearable cacophony. Above it all the merciless sun blazed, bright enough to blister the skin. This was hell and I was it's fury.
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If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.
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I asked him if he was leaving anyone behind. He said he'd met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.
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Then get strong. Learn to be bad enough so others don't have to die to keep you safe.
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Women usually respond well to drama and decisive declarations of lust." "I'm not that sort of a woman. Unfortunately for you, I'm not for sale."
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When I opened my mouth, my voice sounded dull, stripped of all life and inflection. "I brought a sick beastkin to the bouda house. She's my friend. If you're going to kill her, you'll have to go through me." He closed his eyes tight, put his hand over them, and rubbed his face. I sat in a chair and kept my mouth shut, letting him work through his pain. "Why me?" he said finally. "Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life?" "I try m..
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If you like him, I like him. If you hate him, I hate him. But I think he loves you and that's all any mother could hope for.
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