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Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But... she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to. (Libba Bray)
Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? View quote
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To each his own magic. View quote
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I refuse to let the past find me here. View quote
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Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. View quote
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Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?” "The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked. "You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd. View quote
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Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high. View quote
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I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine. View quote
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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all. View quote
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What do you feel? I've never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren't supposed to feel. We're British. View quote
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. (Libba Bray)
We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. View quote
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That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul. View quote
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If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God. View quote
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All things are possible. View quote
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I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you. View quote
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She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away. View quote
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My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. View quote
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I'm not interested in being polite. It's false. View quote
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They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end. View quote
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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable. (Libba Bray)
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry. View quote
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. View quote
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Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together. View quote
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People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History. View quote
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