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1 " Naomi Isabelle Knox. Lead guitarist for Amatory Riot. Twenty-three years old. Hot as hell. Mean as sin. "
― C.M. Stunich , Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1)
2 " I pull my cigarette from my mouth and take a look around, meeting the eyes of my friends carefully,so they'll know how serious I am right now. First person to laugh gets punched.“I'm in love. "
3 " And a mistake made twice isn't really a mistake at all. "
4 " This baby let's me take my low E string from an E Note to a D and back in a flash without having to retune. It can cry like a baby and scream like a devil; it's got angel wings and horns both,and it'll kiss you at the same time it fucks you. Not many dudes can top that,right? "
5 " I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked. "
6 " Once it becomes a secret, it's hard to let it out. If you don't keep it inside to begin with, it doesn't get the chance to fester and rot. So, honesty is my policy. "
7 " Do you know how hard it is to be offered the one thing you always wanted just after you've convinced yourself that you don't anymore? Just when you've accepted that you'll never have it? It's cruel. Worse than never being offered it at all. "
8 " I was born with this horrible affliction that leaves me attracted to men. Why haven't they invented a cure for that shit yet? Check the facts. It's the world's deadliest disease. I kid you not. "
9 " I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that "
10 " Your past is your foundation, and if it's crumbling then you've got nothing left to build on. "
11 " Naomi isn't just under my skin anymore; she's in my blood and my brain and all sorts of strange friggin' places that ache for her. "
12 " The blood doesn't just stain the hands; it stains the soul, too. "
13 " In a jovial fucking mood from watching Naomi, I snap a friendly shot of my ass and message that to him, smiling when I see his face register the photo.“Miss me? "
14 " my jeans, the ones I got from the teen section, the ones made for chicks. And I look fucking perfect in them. "
15 " once she realizes that you're bad news, she'll move on, and I'll be here. I'm not giving up. I haven't even started yet.” I smile back at Dax and I know that my face is getting a real wicked look on it right now. I'm not worried. Maybe I should be, but I'm not.“You challenging me to a duel? Should we lock horns like a bunch of horny deer? "
16 " I whisper under my breath, pressing my forehead to the glass of the window and letting my lashes kiss my reflection. "
17 " If you live your whole life in the darkness, then you don't have any trouble recognizing the light. "
18 " There's a metamorphosis happening right before my eyes. I'm watching a devil shed its skin, shrink its horns and grow wings. The dark haze in the air is lifting, banished by the bright lights of the stage. Even metaphorically, a trick like that is hard to pull off. I'm impressed. Or I would be if I didn't hate the asshole so much. "
19 " my phone starts to buzz on the counter, shaking like an epileptic in a fit.I pick it up,glance at the number and then move over to the sink.“Turner?” Blair guesses,and I nod as I turn on the water and drop the phone into the drain on the left – the one with the garbage disposal. A second later, I flick the switch and a horrible grinding,screeching sound emanates from down below. "
20 " Can't help it. My mood is night and day right now. One minute, I'm wanting to worship the ground she stands on, and the next, I want to destroy her. "