Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.


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Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.
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What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again.

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Whatever happened to the dragon?"

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She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.
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Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?
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Then the best thing I can do is—"

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Do not do that again," he said stiffly.
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ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED.
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How do you feel right now?"
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Do you know anything about silent films?"
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I see how it is,” I snapped. “You were all in favor of me breaking the tattoo and thinking on my...
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Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone.
"You're imagining things," I said. ...
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You know what we need?"

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"A miracle?" asked Eddie....
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There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
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Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, an...
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What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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He's hot like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.
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You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.”

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It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.
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No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you."
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Centrum permanebit.
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Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, ...
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Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have al...
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You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
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You see something you like?
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I find more peace with you.
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None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was bein...
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What is it you’re interested in exactly?” the man asked
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...
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I don’t belong to anyone. I make my own choices."
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You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.
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I’m not dangerous,” I breathed.

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I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.
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God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.
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Je t'aime Roza...je serais là pour toi. Je ne laisserais jamais rien t'arriver.
Et je ne laiss...
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What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted peopl...
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Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?"
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But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.
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I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie
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He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?"
Hopper could exist in this l...
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and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know......
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Well...I'm on birth control"

I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took sev...
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I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...t...
RICHELLE MEAD
Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?"
"No"
"No?"
"...
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Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian."
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You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.
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You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking thi...
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They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous...
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Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good lo...
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I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved yo...
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Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.
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Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate ...
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You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's no...
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Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine t...
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You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and freque...
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I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony
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That means nothing," said Abe with a shrug. I had a feeling that if I stood and suddenly confessed t...
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Hello," I said stiffly.
His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again."
"Alwa...
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You think that I'm so manipulative and scheming, Miss Sage? It's all for them. For my loved ones fir...
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He smiled willingly. "Well, I always aim to help others in need."
"Yeah," a new voice suddenly ...
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I expected Abe to yell for everyone to shut up or something like that. Of course, Nathan had been tr...
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So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "N...
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Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enou...
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Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the w...
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Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's p...
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Ah, Belikov," said Abe, shaking Dimitri's hand. "I'd been hoping we'd run into each other. I'd reall...
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I have it on good authority there's going to be a new 'gate' opening up soon over on the south side ...
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She reached out and touched the bright colors of the cashmere scarf, her face filled with wonder as ...
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What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him.
"Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn...
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Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them."
"No. I won't let them take you."
"You...
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Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That...
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You approve?" I asked, spinning around.

He slipped an arm around my waist. "Unfortunately...
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You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all s...
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Dimitri.
I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't ...
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I'm sorry."

"Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorr...
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That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked-up law I have ever heard.
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As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h...
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In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you,"...
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What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you wi...
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Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away ...
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I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.
Love, Dimitr...
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Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.
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You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially her...
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I don't know. This college would probably have the same problem the last one did."

I frow...
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If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hai...
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Don't touch her," he growled.
There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had b...
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Checkmate, bitch.
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Damn it," I muttered.

"What?" asked Adrian.

"I hate when you're the sane one...
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You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar...
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Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot realit...
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He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can thre...
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Sweat isn't a bad thing," he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. "Some of the best...
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It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword."
"I can’t. I can�...
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That's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant t...
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By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires,...
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Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a...
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what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Ole...
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Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
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You were wrong. She really is the new general in town."
I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware o...
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And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.
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I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...]...
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I love you, Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything h...
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A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.
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