Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
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Read between January 17 - January 30, 2025
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When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.
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A table full of teeth is a table full of teeth.
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In that moment, with that one remark, Pix won Stevie’s everlasting loyalty.
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There is nothing so serious as a game.”
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Get the books right and the rest will follow.
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Kaz had bright, excited eyes and the upbeat tone of a salesman who really wanted to sell you your very own deranged mountain retreat.
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The detective had arrived at Ellingham Academy.
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Game…?
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Once, in 1928, he misplaced all of June. And he had no solid proof that 1931 ever existed.
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“Fine,” he said. “Anything is better than doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”
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Games are not fun when you don’t know you’re playing.
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Everything was alive or vocal in its demise.
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“It’s fine,” Stevie said. Because it probably was. Most things are.
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it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.
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Stevie distinctly felt part of her soul die. She hoped it wasn’t an important part.
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Why him? Out of anyone, why did the hormone gods pick him?
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you don’t bring a few hundred pounds of dry ice along to make out. I’m not up to date on my kinks but I don’t think that’s one.”
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Just a girl and her doorknobs and zombies.
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Could she have kissed a killer? What did a killer kiss like? Could a killer be as warm as David had been? Was that what made him so attractive to her? Was that the thing she had recognized in him from the very first moment she saw him, when something about his face reminded her so strongly of something she knew, something she wanted to fight?
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There is something about early mornings that changes your perceptions subtly. The light is new; no one has put on the defenses of the day. All is reset and not quite real yet.
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“Meet my dead dad,” he replied.
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And there are countless people who improve my life on a day-to-day basis. If you’ve read to the bottom of the acknowledgments page, you are probably one of them. This one is for YOU. Yes, YOU.