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81 " A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left. "
― Karen Marie Moning , Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
82 " The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you?I'm asking the questions tonight.If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it. "
83 " So....stop....me. "
84 " Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not. "
85 " Thankfully I’m not most women. I don’t get off on danger. I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store. "
86 " You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic? "
87 " I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons. "
88 " No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons.It's not your pen. "
89 " I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly. "
90 " He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty. "
91 " When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel? "
92 " Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them. "
93 " But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back. "
94 " His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me... "
95 " Oh, please," I rolled my eyes, "You're a leftie, Barrons.""Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmured. "
96 " Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff? "
97 " There was no lifeboat here in thesedeep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise.There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn’t care. "
98 " I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. "
99 " Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy. "
100 " I don't know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they're genetic memories, or messages from something divine. Warnings perhaps. Maybe we do come with an instruction booklet but we're too dense to read it, because we've dismissed it as the irrational waste product of the "rational" mind. Sometimes I think all the answers we need are buried in our slumbering subconscious, in the dreaming. The booklet's right there, and every night when we lay our heads down on the pillow it flips open. The wise read it, heed it. The rest of us try as hard as we can upon awakening to forget any disturbing revelations we might have found there. "