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41 " I could have said, “You’re hurting me, Roane,” but I was enjoying that part, so instead I said, “You don’t sound like yourself. "
― Laurell K. Hamilton , A Kiss of Shadows (Merry Gentry, #1)
42 " The idea was sort of amusing in a sociopathic sort of way, but I didn’t want him dead. "
43 " THREE DAYS LATER I WAS STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF JEREMY’S OFFICE wearing nothing but a black lace push-up bra, matching panties, and black thigh-highs. A man I’d never met was fishing down the front of the bra. Normally, I have to be planning to sleep with a man before I let him fondle my breast, but it was nothing personal, just business. "
44 " I had myself under control again. I wasn’t going to cry. I was glad. I hated to cry. It always made me feel so weak. "
45 " Alistair scooped my legs up and walked us both onto the bed with his knees. When we were near the center of the bed, he laid me down and stayed on his knees, looking at me, towering over me. But I’d worked alongside Uther for three years. Six feet was nothing when you’d been having lunch with thirteen. I "
46 " Nerys wouldn’t die. She would be trapped in a prison of her own flesh and fluids forever. Blind, unable to feed or breathe, but never dying. Never dying. "
47 " Then I had one of those moments of desperate inspiration, a brilliant idea born of panic. "
48 " I was reminded that a hole in the ground is a hole in the ground whether it be a sithen or a grave. "
49 " Sometimes you just stayed numb, because anything else was not helpful. Sanity relied on numbness, sometimes. "
50 " The older I get the more I realize that ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it beats the alternative. "
51 " don’t let other people’s eyes make you hate yourself. "