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41 " I belong wherever I want to be. "
― Stephenie Meyer , The Host (The Host, #1)
42 " Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie. "
43 " You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game! "
44 " As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to the black universe I had wandered for so many lifetimes. I drifted into the black, and it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't black at all - it was blue. Warm, vibrant, brilliant blue...I floated into it with no fear at all. "
45 " Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. "
46 " Inspiration in desperation. "
47 " No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud. "
48 " I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner. "
49 " Just snow and sapphire and ink. "
50 " And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend? "
51 " I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart. "
52 " I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck. "
53 " My house, my rules! "
54 " We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday. "
55 " And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be. "
56 " After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer. "
57 " I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls came. This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds- the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions...the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. "
58 " I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned. "
59 " Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink. "
60 " Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful. "