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1 " I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them. "
― Donna Augustine , Fated (Karma, #3)
2 " The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares. "
3 " I was flipping back and forth between do and don't quicker than they were serving up flapjacks down at the diner, he was getting closer to me.... close enough that I could smell him.... smell the heat that he threw off and that other certain energy that was pouring off of him right now at levels I'd not seen since Chernobyl. If I didn't move soon, I'd be in trouble... or ecstasy. "
4 " For all that my co-workers put such stock in not being a transfer, we had a definite edge in one area. As a human, you were born knowing that you were going to die. "
5 " We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land. "
6 " The thing that makes us who we are, that goes with us from life to life, it never changes. We always know the people that have surrounded us deep down, whether they are meant to be in our lives at that moment of time or not. "
7 " Yeah, well, I’m pissed off that I give a shit too but I do. When I fuck you, I want you to know it’s me, I want you to need me there with the very core of your being, clinging to me as if you’d die without it. I want it to be raw and real. Hell, even when Cupid was involved, at least I knew it was about us and not because I happened to be there when you were having a bad week. "
8 " It’s okay. There’ll be other murders.” “I know. It’s just so disappointing.” I’d really thought this one would be a slam-dunk. “Come on, I’ll buy you an ice cream. "
9 " Don’t judge. That was a joke. How could I not? Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves. "
10 " Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves. "
11 " Then I saw her—Lars’s guest—the one they called Faith. I wouldn’t have missed her. She still had patches of her human karma clinging to her new form. It was as if the brightest sunlight I’d ever seen was filtering through the leaves of a tree while she sat under it on a spring day. I’d never seen anything like it. "
12 " We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well. "
13 " Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I "
14 " Fate threw his hands up as I passed the ice cream stand. "Where are you going?""My condo.""I still want ice cream.""You still want ice cream?""Yes. "
15 " propensity "
16 " I've seen countless wars, upheaval, the worse atrocities. I've known hundreds of thousands of people and watched them suffer. And yet the thought of anything happening to you brings me to my knees. Label that however you want. "