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161 " Early evening. Can you come over? I’ll try. We need to celebrate. Should I get champagne and cake ready? Get your bed ready. Wear the black bra. I didn’t plan on wearing one. "
― Richelle Mead , The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines, #4)
162 " Everyone thought Sydney had passion only for intellectual pursuits. That was their loss. "
163 " And I’m pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that. "
164 " Just live in the moment. "
165 " We’d get one precious hour of making out or talking—usually making out, made more frantic by the pressure bearing down on us—and "
166 " In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t. "
167 " Most people don’t leave their mark on the world through big miracles. Some do,” she added quickly. “But sometimes the biggest impact is made by a series of small, quiet things. You won’t be able to do anything like that if you’re— "
168 " She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. "
169 " She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look in her eyes. There was a softness in them that I rarely saw at other times, a total and complete vulnerability in someone who was normally so guarded and analytical in the rest of her life. But although I was a decent painter, capturing her on canvas was beyond my skill. "
170 " What’s going to happen to us? "
171 " Actually, these days, it seemed like everything except getting half-naked with Adrian was the last thing on my mind. "
172 " Sydney thought about it for several moments. “Well. I’ve got a car.” An hour later, I vowed I’d never make fun of that Mazda again. "
173 " But really, I just had to face the truth: My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn’t keep my hands off him. "
174 " It didn’t seem possible that outside the sanctity of this moonlit car was a world we had to hide from, a world that wanted to tear us apart. "
175 " The poem’s called ‘Love Is Enough.’ As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable. "
176 " I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. "
177 " Don’t look like that. Everything’s going to be okay. The center will hold.” “How do you know?” “Because we are the center. "
178 " So amazingly, agonizingly sexy that it’s a wonder I can get anything done when all I ever think about is the taste of your lips and the touch of your fingertips on my skin and the way your legs feel when I— "
179 " Australopithecus. "
180 " Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. "