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“Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well."

"And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased.

Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: flirting, romance, sweet-talk, voyeurism

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#2

“It was a disaster … It was the most wonderful thing in the world.”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

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#3

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: books-reading

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#4

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#5

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

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#6

“For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

tags: avery, barnabas, heart, madison, rule, sour

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#7

“And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”
“It’s the same difference!”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

tags: avery, difference, evaluating, grace, madison, spying

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#8

“I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.”
― Kim Harrison

tags: ace, avery, madison, school, start, tomorrow

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#9

“Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!”
― Kim Harrison

tags: avery, barnabas, broken, feather, madison, nakita, of-course

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#10

“...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: impulse, judgement, sometimes, strong

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#11

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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#12

“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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#13

“Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

tags: ask, dad, freak, good-bye, kiss

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#14

“What do you want me to do?
Marry you?
People grow up! Move away! I’m going to college, not the moon!”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

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#15

“Don’t crap where you eat”
― Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

tags: crap, eat

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#16

“I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”
― Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

tags: complicated, man, taste-buds

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#17

“Lost something?’
Yes, my mind.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Splitter

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#18

“The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Splitter

tags: end, justify, means, result, right, wrong

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#19

“Look at him, he’s slain another dangling participle.”
― Skip Coryell, Stalking Natalie

tags: dangling, look, participle, slain

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#20

“There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go “Baa”, as they’re being slaughtered.”
― Skip Coryell, Stalking Natalie

tags: baa, heroism, hill, sheep, slaughter

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#21

“Yes, life has many onions.”
― Skip Coryell, Stalking Natalie

tags: life, many, onion, yes

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#22

“It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.”
― Skip Coryell, Stalking Natalie

tags: easy, good, home, kids, kill, night, people, something, unpleasant, wrong, you

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#23

“You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
― Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

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#24

“Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce a
profit.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

tags: commodity, damage, end, fist, grasp, help, produce, profit, remarkable, serve, trade, truth, versatile, weapon, wield

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#25

“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you
can start writing your memoirs.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

tags: early, memoirs, retirement, start, teach, toes, type, writing

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#26

“The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

tags: gift, know, no, nothing, one, world, you

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#27

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

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#28

“It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

tags: confidence

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#29

“But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

tags: true-to-life

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#30

“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

tags: happiness

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