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21 " It’s like you have all this light inside of you, but you can’t see it. It chases away the darkness in people and draws them in closer to you. It’s one of things I love most about you, "
― Bianca Scardoni , Invidious (The Marked #2)
22 " I could live inside my books, each one taking me further and further away from the barred windows that held me prisoner. "
23 " Trace "
― Bianca Scardoni , Iniquitous (The Marked, #3)
24 " I could handle the truth. I would listen to its heartbreaks and I would mourn the world as I knew it because that’s the kind of girl I was, and then I would pick my pretty self off the floor and do what I was supposed to do. Just like I always did. I "
25 " At most, I could allow myself only a few minutes to cry for him—to grieve our lives, and then I had to push the memories away, burying them deep inside of me once again so that I could function. So that I could go on. "
― Bianca Scardoni , Inception (The Marked, #1)
26 " The blur of looming evergreens zipped by me so quickly it was as though they were never really there at all. Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by. "
27 " The massive, Baronial-style gray stone had been in our family for over a century and had all the trappings of a real life haunted house, outfitted with arched Victorian towers, ivy-clung walls, and a spike-tipped fence that spanned the entire length of the grounds. "
28 " the psychotic break being the part where I claimed to have been attacked by a vampire. "
29 " Say it again, angel. I beg of you. "
― Bianca Scardoni , Infernal (The Marked, #4)
30 " Your silence speaks volumes. "
31 " Dillon Walker. Biggest scumbag ever,” she said as soon as he wasn’t looking. “That’s his pregnant girlfriend waddling up over there,” she said pointing to an extremely pregnant sophomore girl. “And that’s the skank he screws from Easton when his girlfriend’s not around,” she added, pointing to another scantily clad girl only a few seats away from him. “Gross.” Guys like that needed to come with warning labels. The "
32 " Be careful who you trust, for even the Devil was once an Angel. "
33 " The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. They shape the world around you with well-constructed lies, entombing you in the gossamer of their deceit. You’ll never know their true face, for they shed their masks in layers—meticulous and devious, like the skin of an ever-changing snake. I "
34 " INFERNAL GLOSSARY ANAKIM INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR For there to be light, you must first suffer the darkness. "
35 " People always say that everything happens for a reason. That one door closes so that another one can open, and that in the end, everything will always work itself out, and if it hasn’t, it simply isn’t the end. "
36 " Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by. "
37 " And when we were alone, I…I asked him to kiss—” “Stop. Stop.” His hands came out in front of him. “I’ve heard enough. "
38 " I used to cringe when people said I looked like him—my father, because I was a girl and girls aren’t supposed to look like their fathers. Girls are supposed to look like their mothers, or fairy princesses, or Barbie dolls, or some crap like that. I "
39 " He was ineffably perfect just the way he was, an enigma filled with both fire and ice that could send my heart into freefall with a simple shift of his eyes. "
40 " Tiny particles of dust danced lazily around my face, beckoning me for my attention as they fought to stay inside the light. "