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101 " I'm not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me an dmake you scream my name." My mouth fell open. So why won't you, I wanted to ask. "So why don't you? "
― Michelle Hodkin , The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #2)
102 " Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you. "
103 " what if they make me stay? To keep me safe?”“I wouldn’t, if I were them.”“What do you mean?”“Any minute now . . .”Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears.“What did you do?” I said over the noise as he backed up toward the bathroom door.“The girl who gave you the note?”“Yes . . .”“I caught her staring at my lighter.”I blinked. “You gave a child, in a psych ward, a lighter. "
104 " Do I get a gold star? "
105 " In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees, with my shoulders drawn back, showing my heels to the headsman and straining my goose neck—even then. And afterwards—perhaps most of all afterwards—I shall love you, and one day we shall have a real, all-embracing explanation, and then perhaps we shall somehow fit together, you and I . . . we shall connect the points . . . and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. "
106 " I used to think there was nothing I could do to change the way my family saw me. There was nothing I couldn’t say. But now I knew that wasn’t true. I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear. "
107 " I didn’t know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me. "
108 " Anything underneath?" "I don't typically walk around without underwear." "Typically?" "Only on special occasions." "Christ. I meant under your hoodie. "
109 " Rape is about power, not sex. It's about using force or the threat of it to take control over another person. "
110 " Also, I kissed her. She liked it.Naturally. "
111 " Her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I'm beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them. There is wrath and contentment and fear and desire - but she has never let the last get too far. Yet. The sun sings in her hair as her head tilts, dips toward the page. She arches forward, her shape slightly feline as she draws. My heart beats her name. "
112 " Sometimes the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger. "
113 " Si tuviera que vivir mil años, te pertenecería en todos ellos. Si tuviéramos que vivir mil vidas, querría hacerte mía en cada una. "
114 " I would say you'll make a liar out of me, but I was one long before we met. "
115 " My throat burned with the tears I wanted to cry but wouldn't. I knew she loved me. She just didn’t believe me. I understood why, but it hurt like hell just the same. "
116 " I'm the creepy girl. In a mental hospital."He grinned. "Nobody's perfect. "
117 " Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn't release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall. "
118 " I explore the full boxes, mostly brimming with battered, dog-eared, highlighted books. The pages are worn, well-read, and I skim through them. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they loved. "
119 " When I don't see her, her ghost wanders in my veins. "
120 " Someone’s after her—”“Your antagonist, good . . .”“And she’s getting worse. She needs to figure out what’s going on.”Daniel leaned his chin on his hand and raised his eyebrows. “How about an Obi-Wan slash Gandalf slash Dumbledore slash Giles?”“Giles?”Daniel shook his head sadly. “I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It’s a flaw in you, Mara. "