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21 " She says, all serious like, Lor, you’re a really sweet guy(who the bloody fuck is she talking about? I’m lookingaround the bed but it’s only me and her)... "
― Karen Marie Moning , Feverborn (Fever, #8)
22 " Feathers. Bloody hell, he hadn’t seen that one coming when he’d considered his future. Like a goddamn chicken. "
23 " Who shit in your coffee this morning?” “And you don't say things like that. You're Ryodan "
24 " A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around. "
25 " My point is you can’t believe only in Voldemort. You have to believe in Dumbledore, too. "
26 " Right. And soon sentient beings will stop destroying oneanother and themselves. Not. We’re all going to die. Aloneand miserably. With lots of pain. That’s the way life goes.People make promises and don’t keep them. They say theycare about you and forget you.”“I didn’t forget you. I never forget you "
27 " I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself. "
28 " I didn’t have time to change.”“Then you’ll make it now. I’m not working on you with thatmuch death on your skin. "
29 " sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn’t have done to begin with. "
30 " It didn’t matter where you put your unconditional love, once given, the stealing away of it was an assault to every sense. Smells were the worst—they could ambush you, put you smack back in the middle of the hottest part of the grief. The scent of a peaches-and-cream candle. The brand of deodorant she’d used. Her pillow back home. The smell of the bookstore in the evening, when I’d believed Barrons was dead. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts. "
31 " Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose. "
32 " Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task. —Epictetus "
33 " Boundaries were necessary for a successful relationship. Most relationships aborted in the boundary-defining stage. Not because people demanded what they needed. But because they didn’t, then got resentful about it. "
34 " We’re all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That’s the way life goes. People make promises and don’t keep them. They say they care about you and forget you. "
35 " Sky above, earth below, fire within. "
36 " I resent being cued. It makes me not want to know. "
37 " Hey, wanna fuck? "
38 " When we’re kids,” Dancer said, “we’re made of steel. And we think we’re invincible but stuff happens and that steel gets stretched and pulled and twisted into impossible shapes. Most people are torn apart by the time they’re married and have kids of their own. But some people, the few, figure out how to let that steel heat and bend. And in all the places other people break, they get stronger. "
39 " I lived with the constant awareness that if I cared about you and you figured it out, you’d leave. "
40 " Who among the Fae likes you enough to do that favor?” I knew the answer to that. No one. “The one I didn’t kill when I demanded it. After I killed the other two.” I smiled faintly. One word: badass. I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up. "