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“So, you care about me now,â€� I said, meaning to make a joke of it, but it came out soft and low and full of something guttural that made me embarrassed. ‘Why?â€�
“Because I don’t know anybody like you. You’re like � a rare artefact. And it would be a shame if you got broken.� Amusement spluttered from me in the most unattractive way. ‘Are you really comparing me to an antique right now? Oh my God, you nerd.�
He started laughing, and the carefree melody of it swept me up until I was laughing too, and it was absurd because our families were being threatened and murdered and there we were squished together in a hundred-degree heat outside a maximum security prison, and we used to hate each other and now we were laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.
He composed himself first, but it took a while and I was left choking my laughter into silence. ‘What I meant was,� his face twisted into a quiet smile that felt secret and deadly, ‘you’re a bright spark, Sophie. And I don’t want anyone to snuff you out.�
‘Oh.� Well I couldn’t make fun of that. Was I supposed to say something back? Wasn’t that how compliments worked? The silence was growing and suddenly his words felt heavy and important and he was so close to me and I was perspiring and panicking, and � and I said, ‘And you’re kind of like a snowflake.�
Oh, Jesus Christ.
He masked his fleeting surprise with a quirked eyebrow. ‘Excuse me?�
‘Nothing,� I said quickly. ‘I didn’t say anything.�
‘No, no,� he said, rounding on me so his face was too close, his eyes too searing, his smile too irritating. ‘I’m a snowflake, am I?�
‘Shut up. Seriously.� I pulled wisps of loose hair around my cheeks. ‘Shut up.�
‘I think you were trying to tell me I was special.�
‘Icy,� I said. ‘I meant you were icy.�
I could practically taste his glee. I was floundering, and he was relishing it.
‘And unique, in that you’re uniquely annoying,â€� I added. ‘God, you’re annoying.”
― Catherine Doyle, Inferno

“Once you go dead, no one else is better in bed." Bones”
― Jeanine Frost

“Love isn't shit. It's not worth a damn thing. But time, attention, priority... those things are real, and until a man gives you those, don't give him the time of day, beautiful.”
― Sara Cate, Eyes on Me

“Fake it ‘til you make it â€� universal clause in the unwritten hunter’s code." â€�#Greta2”
― Chloe Jacobs

“Hell.â€� Straightening, she stepped out from the pile of stacked crates. “You’re going to make me save your bony ass, aren’t you?â€� ~Greta; #Greta2”
― Chloe Jacobs

“I didn't ask to be born!"
"No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!”
― Airicka Phoenix, Touching Fire

“The siren soared again, closer at hand, and then, with no anticipatory roar and clamour, a dark and sinuous body curved into view against the shadows far down the high-banked track, and with no sound but the rush of the cleft wind and the clock like tick of the rails, moved towards the bridge - it was an electric train. Above the engine two vivid blurs of blue light formed incessantly a radiant crackling bar between them, which, like a spluttering flame in a lamp beside a corpse, lit for an instant the successive rows of trees and caused Gloria to draw back instinctively to the far side of the road. The light was tepid - the temperature of warm blood... The clicking blended suddenly with itself in a rush of even sound, and then, elongating in sombre elasticity, the thing roared blindly by her and thundered onto the bridge, racing the lurid shaft of fire it cast into the solemn river alongside. Then it contracted swiftly, sucking in its sound until it left only a reverberant echo, which died upon the farther bank.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Greta: “Oh, it’s on, babe.â€� She tossed her long braid over her shoulder with a grin. “Try to keep up, will you?â€� ~Greta; â€�#Greta2”
― Chloe Jacobs

“You’ve one week to solve this, or you’re history!”
― Phil Hall, Murder O'Clock

“What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads of the present. Then he could create a future, as thought he were rewriting the past.It was the only way”
― Murakami Haruki, 1Q84 Libro 3: Ottobre - Dicembre

“If one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. -p162”
― Thucydides

“Not courage alone, therefore, but an actual sense of your superiority should animate you as you go forward against the enemy. Confidence, out of a mixture of ignorance and good luck, can be felt even by cowards; but this sense of superiority comes only to those who, like us, have real reasons for knowing that they are better placed than their opponents. And when the chances on both sides are equal, it is intelligence that confirms courage.”
― Thucydides

“We weren’t born to suffer, we were born to make a difference. Our pain is just an unfortunate consequence of becoming the people we were destined to be”
― Sara Furlong Burr, Vendetta Nation

“Ignorance is like a disease. If you don’t fight it, it will spread until we all succumb to it.”
― Sara Furlong Burr, Vendetta Nation

“Jarrod,â€� she gasped as he rubbed her intimately through the fabric and things inside her shorts started to go into meltdown. “This is crazy …â€�
“I know,â€� he said, his voice strained. “God â€� don’t you think I know that?”
― Amy Andrews, Some Girls Don't

“Selena looked back at him. He seemed so desolate. “Jarrod …â€� she whispered.

“Just go, Selena.� His voice cut through the silence, his eyes hard as jade. “I don’t need your pity visit. Or your pity company. Unless it comes with a pity fuck, you should just go on home.�

She’d never known Jarrod to be deliberately cruel. Deliberately crude. “Screw you, Jarrod.�

It’d be the only one he was getting from her.”
― Amy Andrews, Some Girls Don't

“Why kill two birds with one stone when you could just kill ten with a boulder?”
― Ella Summers, Witch's Cauldron

“This was a first date. A step in the future. So why was she staring so hard at her past?”
― H.S. Howe, The Will to Try

“He wanted nothing more than to reignite the flame between them. To strike the match and burn for her, and with her, until they were both nothing but a pile of hot coals. His hands literally itched to reach out and grab her the way a man is allowed to grab a woman that's his.”
― H.S. Howe, The Will to Try

“Are there any other well-guarded places I should not be that you would like me to get into, Shipwife?â€� he asked.

“Not at the moment, Joron,â€� she smiled, “but when I think of them you will be first to know.”
― R.J. Barker, The Bone Ships