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21 " Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that. "
― Sherrilyn Kenyon , Invincible (Chronicles of Nick, #2)
22 " You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?” – Caleb "
23 " No, Nick. The world has always been scary. You’ve just been lucky enough to be shielded from it. It’s the saddest part of childhood, really. When that shimmery veil is ripped away by something horrible and you’re left with the unvarnished truth. When the world no longer becomes safe and you see the ugly side of it. You, like most humans, fear us demons. But we’re not the worst predators out there. You know what we are. It’s the ones who lure you in with kindness or who attack from the back. Those are monsters far worse than us. All this time, you thought you know. We all do. But now you have seen.” – Caleb "
24 " Fine, just don’t eat my mom, okay? She’s had a bad enough life without becoming the Bride of Dracula.” – Nick "
25 " I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb "
26 " I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn’t even had his first date yet. He’d only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.’ – Nick "
27 " In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death "
28 " I don’t know. Word around the girls’ locker room is that all of you are so hard up, you were cruising the senior center, trying to find a prom date.” – Nick "
29 " (He glared at them while it rang and rang and rang. Grimacing at the delay, Nick glanced toward Kody.) “Do necromancers not have voice mail?” – Nick "
30 " Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick) "
31 " Tomar las más insignificantes decisiones podía provocar profundas repercusiones. Unos diez minutos de espera podrían salvar una vida. O terminarla. Un giro equivocado bajando por la calle correcta o una conversación aparentemente sin importancia, y todo cambiaba. No era justo que cada vida fuera definida, arruinada, acabada y lo hiciera por tales detalles aparentemente inofensivos. Un importante acontecimiento que cambiase la vida debería venir con una señal de advertencia que dijera: ABANDONA TODA ESPERANZA o PONTE A SALVO. Era una broma cruel que nadie pudiera ver las curvas más peligrosas hasta que estabas sobre el borde, cayendo al abismo. (Ambrose) "
32 " I know this clown," Grim said in an evil tone. "He keeps teasing me with these near death experiences. One day, I'm going to take his butt down even when I'm not supposed to. You can't keep knocking on my door and then slamming it in my face. It's just not right. "
33 " All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and our pasts. A vital parts of the circumstances we were raised with. Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression on our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. "
34 " If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter."Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?""Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife. "
35 " They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs. "
36 " Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine.""My mom suffers from those a lot, too.""Being around you, I imagine she does. "
37 " Calm down. I’m a demon, Nick. Hematite doesn’t like my genetics. It doesn’t mean anything other than I have really bad parentage.”“Then why am I having flashes of you killing me?”“What’d you eat this morning?”Nick didn’t care for that answer. Not one little bit. “I saw it happen. You were choking the life out of me.”Caleb rolled his eyes. “Oh yeah. That is definitely a figment of your overactive, over-Hollywood-stimulated imagination. I assure you. I don’t kill people that way. Takes too long. I’m not into torture. I prefer a quick death so that I can move on to something more satisfying.”Strangely enough, that he believed. Patience wasn’t a virtue Caleb practiced. “You sure?”“Dude, look at me. You think I’d have let the demons pound all over me last night so that you could escape if I had any intention of killing you? Really? "
38 " All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and their pasts. A vital part of the circumstances we were raised with. Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little day to day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be."His head was pounding from trying to digest all of this. "I'm so overwhelmed.""Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails. "
39 " Be glad you have a mother who loves you."He was glad of that. A lot, since she was basically the only person on earth who did. But now that he was a full head taller than her, it was weird when she tried to cuddle him like he was a baby. He could be almost seven feet tall like Acheron, and she'd probably still try to pull him into her lap. "
40 " Soy demasiado joven, demasiado inteligente y demasiado guapo para morir.Sí, y algo más. El mundo lo necesitaba para mejorar el banco genético. (Nick) "