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21 " I am my own worst enemy. But if there were to be a second place, it would go to this girl. "
― Ally Carter , See How They Run (Embassy Row, #2)
22 " mostly it makes me want to pull Lila out of Alexei’s arms and toss her in the pool. I "
23 " And all around me, there are people. Beautiful people. Awkward people. People who are so engrossed with the person beside them that I highly doubt they even remember where they are. People who want to be anywhere but here. "
24 " I'm sure I don't know what you mean. "
25 " And, most of all, these women remembered what their mothers and grandmothers had learned from the Romans, the Byzantines, the Turks, and the Mongols: that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men. "
26 " I can't help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred, but still standing. I'm not thinking as I reach up and gently run a finger across his battered face. "
27 " For a second, I actually wonder if my brother, the saint, might actually be lying. "
28 " I find there is a lack of international intrigue at the moment. - Rosie "
29 " Of course I believe in ghosts. I just don't think they'd waste their time haunting an Island where no one ever goes. "
30 " Noah learned how to please everyone." Lila pierces me with a glare. "I learned there's no use trying to please anyone. "
31 " Maybe this means she believes me. Maybe she trusts me. Or maybe she Lila is just smart enough to know that, given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself. "
32 " Caroline knew what this really is... It is a fourteen-day celebration of a time when people like them killed people like me. - Princess Ann "
33 " How is your injury?" Dominic asks."My what?" It says a lot about me that I don't even notice the ache of a stab wound anymore, that a part of me is so utterly immune to pain. "It's fine. I mean, it hurts. But I'm used to that. "
34 " Noah is grinning at me, teasing, mocking just a little. He doesn't know that he should hate me. Fear me. Pity me. I should like him for that, but in the end I can't respect anyone who could be foolish enough to be sucked into all of my lies, "
35 " Noah is grinning at me, teasing, mocking just a little. He doesn't know that he should hate me. Fear me. Pity me. I should like him for that, but in the end I can't respect anyone who could be foolish enough to be sucked into all of my lies. "