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1 " I resisted the urge to laugh. Clearly, Angie hadn’t been kidding when she’d said that Bashrik was driving her crazy. And I knew all too well how swift Angie’s justice was when it came to her enemies. I remembered how she’d slipped several spoonfuls of the spiciest chili sauce into the soup of an unsuspecting Andrea, a girl who’d bullied me in junior high. I could still remember her little cheeks puffed out like a squirrel’s as she held her mouth and raced to the bathroom. "
― Bella Forrest , Coldbloods (Hotbloods, #2)
2 " It was frantic, his hands on my hips, running up the curves of my waist, bringing me as close to him as possible. His kisses weren’t soft or delicate, but that wasn’t what I wanted anyway. I wanted passion and fire, to remind me I was alive. "
3 " I wasn’t sure what to say, so I just held him, feeling him turn toward my embrace. I held him close, letting him grip me as hard as he wanted, until the worst of it ebbed away again. "
4 " I couldn’t begin to understand the loss he felt, but I wanted to be there to help him through it. "
5 " How did you find us?” Navan asked, his eyes narrowed and glinting with suspicion. “It wasn’t difficult,” Galo replied. “I found a way to sneak into Vysanthe’s orbit and simply followed the trail of chaos. "
6 " As soon as I started walking, my head throbbed with an ache that spread to my whole body. What was a full-body ache called—a way-too-tired-because-I’ve-been-attacked-by-just-about-everything-ache? "
7 " I want you to feel like you can tell me anything. I know I’m not always the best at… communication, but I promise I’ll try harder to listen to you first before freaking out over things.” “You mean you’ll be Sexy, Amazing Listener Navan?” I asked. He smiled. “With emphasis on the Sexy. "
8 " He glanced sullenly toward the door, then back at me with a look of deep resignation in his eyes. “You ready to leave?” I hesitated, not feeling ready to leave this little haven in the slightest, but then nodded. “If you are.” He took my hand and led me toward the door. “I’m not sure I’ll make it halfway down the corridor before I decapitate him, but let’s see how this goes. "
9 " Besides, the “necessary evil” that Lazar was trying to pass off as acceptable was so far beyond the line of righteousness that I doubted he could even see the line anymore. Judging by the harrowing sight of the red smoke billowing from the strange metal silo, more than a handful of innocents had already suffered for this supposed cause. Lazar was either kidding himself, or he’d been conditioned by the rebels to believe that what he was doing was for all the right reasons. I didn’t know which was worse. "
10 " Up until the very last moment, Lazar made attempts at enticing Navan into conversation, but Navan was having none of it. I didn’t blame him. His uncle’s moral compass was screwed up, and I could see the frustration Navan felt at Lazar ending up so far down the rebel rabbit hole. I had never believed in the idea of “necessary evils”, and I wasn’t about to start believing in them now. "
11 " I’d seen it before. It was history, repeating itself, over and over again. "