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61 " I'd been born with a spine, and I intended to use it. Flowers wilted. Girls didn't. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Devious Lies (Cruel Crown, #1)
62 " She craved my words, just like I craved the ones on her shirt. "
63 " I’ve seen your scars. I’d taste them if you’d let me. "
64 " No matter how many times I kiss her, claim her, mark her as mine, it will never be enough. The way I crave her is insatiable. It’s proof of immortality. "
65 " That’s the thing about getting sick. You don’t suffer alone. You suffer with the people you love, which is too much fucking suffering. "
66 " Girls like Emery Winthrop were the finish line, the goal you worked for, the place you strived to reach, the smile you saw when you closed your eyes and wondered why you even bothered. "
67 " Sometimes, I wondered if Eastridge wasn’t a small, affluent town in North Carolina, but a circle of Dante’s Inferno. "
68 " Because you’re mine, Tiger, "
69 " Bolt is a contronym—a word that is opposite itself. If you bolt something, you hold it together. If you bolt, you separate by fleeing. "
70 " skewed the general public’s conceptions of revenge. It didn’t happen in a day. Like all things worth doing, revenge—true revenge, the type meant to annihilate its target—took time. "
71 " Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes. "
72 " I mouthed words I loved to calm myself, letting them form on my lips without releasing them into a universe that destroyed. "
73 " We were geode crystals. Beautiful. Tough. Shiny. Resilient. Destined for a life sheltered inside an ugly rock. "
74 " Balter?” “To dance—artlessly, with no grace, no skill, but always with enjoyment. "