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1 " Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died for the sins of the world just because it was fun and did not want things to be too serious. He was only thirty-three, after all, and might want to martyr himself for other people. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
2 " She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating. "
3 " You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it. "
4 " They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. "
5 " Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs. "
6 " I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen. "
7 " At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It riled some innate feminist... that the princesses were strongest when they were acting like the men... "
8 " She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two. "
9 " Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide. "
10 " Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body. "
11 " She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her. "
12 " You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you... "
13 " I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered. "
14 " She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through. "
15 " To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night. "
16 " She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline artistic to mark her body, chiaroscuro designs in blood. Dying is the last thing she would want, like any healthy organism. A little pain, a small invoked sting trailing her arm, brought her much closer to grounded when she could not keep her head from racing, her thoughts from consuming her with obsession. An ounce of liquid weight loss and she could go back to being herself again. Usually. "
17 " As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world. "
18 " Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag? "
19 " Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again. "
20 " She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls. "
