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“I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone w...”
“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”
“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
“It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself st...”
“Can't get away from your own self.”
“He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd ...”
“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure...”
“Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye”
“The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms,...”
“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
“Some things exist whether you believe in them or not”
“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. ...”
“There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.”
“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.”
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
“So you'll teach me?" Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire.""I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand."I know you're very brave," he said."Or st”
