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It hit him, as he reentered the party, Julian behind him, that perhaps Charlie had been onto something after all. And he never would have said “Julian’s in love with you,” because that would’ve made it worse. What mortal wouldn’t fall for
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“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.”
― By Nightfall
― By Nightfall
“Peter glances out at the falling snow. Oh, little man. You have brought down your house not through passion but by neglect. You who dared to think of yourself as dangerous. You are guilty not of the epic transgressions but the tiny crimes. You have failed in the most base and human of ways - you have not imagined the lives of others.”
― By Nightfall
― By Nightfall
“Life isn’t that messy if you stay away from mess.”
― I Have Some Questions For You
― I Have Some Questions For You
“I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.”
― By Nightfall
― By Nightfall
“Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
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