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“You loved her," Isobel”
“You're a dream. Like everything else.”
“The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.”
“He hated himself," Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.”
“You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone elses dream who is, themselves, someone elses.”
“Not anymore, though," he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.”
“It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will ne...”
“So." [Isobel] cleared her throat. "What are we doing?""We," [Varen] said at last, "are doing a project on Poe.""Didn't he marry his cousin or something?""The man is a literary god and that's all yo...”
“Death always wins.”
“You were dropped as a child, weren't you?" Varen asked her."Maybe once or twice," Gwen said, "but at least I wasn't raised by highly literate vampires who, every night just before bed, fed me a ste...”
“I keep telling myselfThat yourejust a girl.Another leaf blown across my pathDestined to pass onAnd shrivel into yourselfLike all the others.Yet despite my venomYou refuse to witherOr fade.You remai...”
“As though sensing her heightening alarm, Pinfeathers halted his advance."I cant help it that Im susceptible to you," he whispered. "You know that. Its just that youre so...unreal...and so I have to...”
“Isobel moved farther into the kitchen, not knowing whether to be relieved that her mother hadn't had an atomic meltdown, or mortified that she'd taken it upon herself to play head chef with the nea...”
“Though Isobel could recall only a few specifics regrading the appearance of Poe's wife-a handful of vague characteristics picked up during her study with Varen, retained from the one or two glimpse...”
“Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...he didn't anymore.”
“Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her las...”
“Lady Ligeia," he began again, "is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love.""Oh, yes. Lovely" Isobel blanched. "I guess the oth...”
“Despite all the dark armor, the kohl liner, the black boots and chains, she saw him clearly now. Shed peered through the curtain of that cruel calmness, through the death stare and the vampire sent...”
“She never answered. She couldnt. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.”
“Can I tell you something?" He tilted his head, moving in closer still, so close that she could feel his breath against her cheek. "Do you want to know what my grandma used to say about kisses on th...”
“Side by side we'll fight the tide,That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand,Even as we drown.”
