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“Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, th...”
“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.”
“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
“Ive stripped my life down, he told me. I dont need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here. He shot himself in the head with his fingers. People dont understand about the need to ...”
“Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.”
“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”
“But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.”
“What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman”
“Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?”
“Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.”
“Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.”
“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?”
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call...”
“I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”
“I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'...”
“You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.”
“Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she ...”
“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”
