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I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try. .Claudia Gray
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Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.Claudia Gray
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Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.Claudia Gray
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I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.Claudia Gray
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Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science —that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.Claudia Gray
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If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened–even if you’d already lost each other forever–you owed each other the truth.Claudia Gray
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People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.Claudia Gray
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But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters-- I'm alive again.Claudia Gray
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Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.Claudia Gray
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But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.Claudia Gray
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The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.Claudia Gray
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I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.Claudia Gray
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He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.Claudia Gray
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Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day, " Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.Claudia Gray
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I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.Claudia Gray
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Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.'' Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.Claudia Gray
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Suspicion, " he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.Claudia Gray
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All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.Claudia Gray
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In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.Claudia Gray
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The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.Claudia Gray
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I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you, " I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."" Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.Claudia Gray
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It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls — especially when it’s 41, 000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women — even a hatred for women — and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie. The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie — a flat-out lie — and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.Claudia Gray
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Your soul is bigger than your programming.Claudia Gray
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He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.Claudia Gray
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Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.Claudia Gray
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That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror."" You saw your parents at the best, " Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss. "Go ahead, " Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws.Claudia Gray
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The only thing more compelling than love is power.Claudia Gray
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We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?Claudia Gray
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You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.” No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you.Claudia Gray
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Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could–to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.Claudia Gray
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We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.Claudia Gray
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Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.Claudia Gray
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But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.Claudia Gray
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My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.Claudia Gray
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Answer suffering with kindness.Claudia Gray
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You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.Claudia Gray
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Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.Claudia Gray
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Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.Claudia Gray
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You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.Claudia Gray
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That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.Claudia Gray
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We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.Claudia Gray
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Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.Claudia Gray
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The universe is in fact a multiverse.Claudia Gray
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Every single world we've visited isn't just random–it's the result of countless choices, all of them combining to create a new reality. You and I have been given an infinity of chances, and that's so much more than mot people will ever get–but in the end we get to live in only one world, and that's the world we make. I want us to create that world together.Claudia Gray
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Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin.Claudia Gray
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Noemy says, “I guess it’s just the idea of love I miss. And, well, it was a good kiss.” Her smile turns rueful. “At least I got some practice.” A wonderful idea occurs to Abel. “Do you need more practice?” “Huh?” “We could practice, if you wanted." He smiles as he starts to explain." Remember what I told you on Genesis? I’m programmed with a wide array of techniques for providing physical pleasure, via every activity from kissing to the more arcane positions for sexual intercourse. Although I’ve never performed any of them before, I’m confident I could do so very skillfully.” She stares at him, eyes wide. Since she is swift to voice objections if she has them, Abel takes her silence as an encouraging sign. So he sits up on the bed to explain the further compelling reasons now coming to mind. “Humans need a certain amount of physical release and comfort in order to be psychologicallly healthy. You’ve been away from your family and friends for some time, and have endured considerable trauma, suggesting you are in even greater need than usual. I have all the information and technique necessary to be an excellent partner, my body is designed to be appealing, and of course I can neither carry disease nor impregnate you. We have total privacy and many hours of spare time. Conditions for intercourse would seem to be ideal.Claudia Gray
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For our kind, death is only the beginning.Claudia Gray
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…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.Claudia Gray
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Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.Claudia Gray
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Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later.Claudia Gray
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I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.Claudia Gray
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It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.Claudia Gray
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Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony, " Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.Claudia Gray
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Theo's already on his way. Paul might bee too, but communications have been down so long, I don't know."" Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That's madness." Dad sighs. "Then again, jumping through dimensions to chase a dead man is madness too. I had long suspected their lunacy but this confirmation is nonetheless disquieting."" See? Everything's going to be fine.Claudia Gray
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Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.Claudia Gray
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…one world’s poison might be another’s salvationClaudia Gray
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This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.Claudia Gray
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You don't even know what loyalty means."" The hell I don't! Ciena, if I weren't loyal to you, would I be here?Claudia Gray
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But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.Claudia Gray
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Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.Claudia Gray
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The sun is setting on the New Republic, ” Leia said. “It's time for the Resistance to rise.Claudia Gray
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I fell in love with his unchanging soul.Claudia Gray
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This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.Claudia Gray
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Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“ The transaction is closer to a rental.Claudia Gray
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Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.Claudia Gray
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The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -CharityClaudia Gray
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It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.Claudia Gray
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I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.Claudia Gray
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I love the romance in Kimberly Derting's 'The Body Finder.' 'Cold Kiss' by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching - and about so much more than just romantic love.Claudia Gray