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1 " People aren't always as they seem on the outside, Luther," I said, glancing up at him. "Maybe I smile a lot and crack jokes and try to make the best of things, but that doesn't mean I'm not all fucked up inside. "
― Caroline Peckham , Carnival Hill (The Harlequin Crew, #3)
2 " I love you, Rogue," he snapped. "I love you and I want you and I fucking need you. But loving you feels like loving sand I'm gripping tight in my fist while the tide rushes in to claim it. And as much as I want to be able to hold onto you, every time a wave hits, a bit more of the sand is stolen. How long until he takes every piece of you from me? I can't fucking stand it. I can't survive it. "
3 " If the sun rises tomorrow, we’ll watch it together,” she said breathily. “And if it doesn’t, we’ll fall into the dark hand in hand, "
4 " It doesn’t work like that. You can only have one star-bound mate in the world of Solaria, and Gabriel can see the future. He already knows it’ll be him.” “Well maybe "
5 " My gaze fell on Sparkle in his tank by the window and I headed over to see how he was doing. There were no more remnants of moustache in the tank now because damn, this little starfish was becoming a hungry carnivore and I was gonna start training him up to devour more than just moustaches soon too. He’d take some fingers next, then a toe, we’d work up to a hand and maybe I’d bring him a few more friends so they could work as a team to destroy human body parts. One day I’d have an army of flesh-eating starfishes and my enemies would fear their tiny gaping mouths. “Good boy, Sparkle.” I sprinkled some fish food into the tank as a reward, but he just sat on his rock and didn’t look at me. He had such a sense of humour. *** "
6 " I was a dead girl walking, and it was time I returned to my grave. "