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Wouter van Noort is 68% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

"What's the point of Death-Cast calling if you're too scared to live?"

— Jan 02, 2025 03:32PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 54% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

As I look into the mirror, I don't see a Decker looking back at me. I already look alive and well because I am alive and well.

— Jan 02, 2025 09:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

"Okay with the gay?" I ask.
"Okay with the gay." he repeats.

— Jan 02, 2025 04:03AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 37% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

There's been a lot of debate since Death-Cast was announced about what the roles of medical professionals will be when it comes to attending to Deckers. Are resources worth using on a patient who won't live regardless?

— Jan 01, 2025 02:53PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

I write short stories because I am one.
I wish I was a novel.
Breaths away from midnight, I know my final chapter is close.
I look up at Valentino, wondering what life couldve offered if I
had more pages in me.

— Jan 01, 2025 08:32AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

"You got silent after she mentioned Death-Cast," Orion says.
"Do you not believe in Death-Cast?" Dalma asks.
"Let's put it like this: I don't think I'm going to be abducted by aliens at midnight."

— Jan 01, 2025 02:21AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 15% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

"What the hell am I supposed to say?" I ask.
"Speak from your heart," Dalma says. "Not your dick."
"Speak from my heart, not my dick; speak from my heart, not my dick," I mutter like a mantra.

— Dec 31, 2024 01:29PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)

Death-Cast claims they can't pinpoint someone's cause of death, only their End Days to prepare them. And unfortunately, once someone's name comes up in their mysterious system, their fate is written in stone - and later on their headstone.

— Dec 31, 2024 07:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 88% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

He grinned as he passed by me,
"What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn't take care of my woman?"
I stared after him.
"The fake kind."

— Dec 31, 2024 01:03AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 77% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

He tossed me a smile over his shoulder and grabbed my now warm, grown-up-glove-covered hand into his. "Just in case anybody sees us heading to the woods," he stated, holding up our clasped hands. My eyes narrowed, but I allowed the touching breach to continue, for our cover.

— Dec 30, 2024 04:32PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

He shook his head, a smile playing on his lips.
"If we're dating this week..."
I clenched my fists, eyeing him warily,
"Fake dating."

— Dec 30, 2024 11:49AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

I blinked my eyes a few times, wondering if I was dreaming. Because there was no way -No Way- this could be happening right now. The world was too big for a coincidence this horrible. And yet.. The man dressed in red flannel rolled up to his forearms, and a stupid gray beanie on his head, was none other than, Miles Taylor.

— Dec 30, 2024 01:58AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 37% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

His face lit up. "Well, isn't that something. My son is an English teacher, too. He's coming home tonight." He suddenly eyed me, brimming with mischief. "You dating anybody?" I gave a startled laugh, ready to tell him no when I remembered "Oh. Uh, yeah, I am."
I'd better stay consistent.

— Dec 29, 2024 03:37PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

I couldn't handle the thought of some awkward setup. Not when I was just trying to survive Christmas with a smile still attached. Trying to keep my emotions civil would be a full-time job. So, on a whim, I pulled out something I thought might save me... A harmless white lie.

— Dec 29, 2024 07:43AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

"Get in a fight over the Oxford comma again?" he asked, looking at me as though something amused him. "I'm surprised you've heard of the Oxford comma," I replied pleasantly.

— Dec 29, 2024 02:06AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)

Of course, as all great literature can attest, every good plan has a few obstacles.
I had two.
The first was Miles Taylor.

— Dec 28, 2024 03:09PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 89% done with Pride and Prejudice

"Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature, and for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings care not how much I may be wounding yours."

— Dec 28, 2024 06:33AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with Pride and Prejudice

"Unhappy as the event must be for her, we may draw from it this useful lesson: That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable, that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful, and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."

— Dec 28, 2024 02:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 73% done with Pride and Prejudice

If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents. With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.

— Dec 27, 2024 11:28AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 67% done with Pride and Prejudice

He cried; "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression.

— Dec 27, 2024 05:39AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 62% done with Pride and Prejudice

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

— Dec 26, 2024 01:09PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain. Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it.

— Dec 25, 2024 01:52PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with Pride and Prejudice

After waiting at home every morning for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and, yet more, the alteration of her manner, would allow Jane to deceive herself no longer.

— Dec 24, 2024 06:34AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with Pride and Prejudice

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."

— Dec 24, 2024 01:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 43% done with Pride and Prejudice

Mr.Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclination, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: "My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world of your excellent judgment in all matters within the scope of your understanding."

— Dec 23, 2024 11:11AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 39% done with Pride and Prejudice

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some
particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."

— Dec 22, 2024 02:59PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Pride and Prejudice

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

— Dec 21, 2024 02:45PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. The perpetual commendations of the lady either on his hand-writing, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in unison with her opinion of each.

— Dec 20, 2024 12:35PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 22% done with Pride and Prejudice

"When I am in the country," he replied, "I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town, it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either."

— Dec 20, 2024 02:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with Pride and Prejudice

"How I long to see her again! I never met with any body who delighted me so much. Such a countenance, such manners, and so extremely accomplished for her age. Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite."

— Dec 19, 2024 03:51PM Add a comment

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