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1 " Is this going to be a thing?” I ask, my arms wound around his broad shoulders. “You carrying me around like a sack of potatoes?” “It makes me feel macho bein’ able to lift all this weight—ow! "
― J.T. Geissinger , Wicked Intentions (Wicked Games, #3)
2 " Life isn’t always unfair, Mariana. Lots of bad shit happens, but good things happen, too, and you need to be able to recognize the good when it comes along. You need to be able to accept it and deal with it, same as you deal with the bad. Love is as real as hate. You know how to survive. But that’s not the same as living. "
3 " My point is that I’m aware of my shortcomings. Because I know I’m not perfect, I don’t expect other people to be perfect, either. The only thing I demand from anyone—whether they like me or not—is that they’re real. Whatever and whoever they are, they own it. They don’t make fuckin’ excuses. I hate excuses. "
4 " There’s nothing.The yacht is a burning, blackened husk of death, the ocean all around eerily silent.It isn’t until I hear the helicopters and look up into the sky that I realize I’ve fallen to my knees.And that awful animal scream that seems to be coming from everywhere is coming from me. "
5 " Love was the worst.Inconveniently, it was also the best.I didn’t trust it from the get-go.What I didn’t realize is that love isn’t like Tinker Bell. Love exists whether you believe in it or not.And whether you believe in love or not, it believes in you. "
6 " muttering. “You must need extra bandwidth. "
7 " Ask Tabby to hack into air traffic control and see which flight has those coordinates.” I point at the screen. “Find out where it’s going. And see if she can fiddle with the onboard flight management system to get it to slow down a little, or at least tamper with the fuel gauge readout or something else so the pilot has to make an unscheduled landing.”His brows lift. “Would you like her to make it rain, too, brother?”After a moment, I ask, “Can she do that? "
8 " Do you know what a hero needs more than anything else?” “Great hair? A compelling backstory? A cool name and a cape?” “A villain. And do you know what happens when a hero finds his villain?” “They live happily ever after in the pages of a comic book?” Radiating annoyance, Reynard purses his lips and exhales. I ditch the jokes and answer seriously. “War. "
