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She shrugs." Men"" Men."" If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there?Cynthia Hand
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I love you, " he murmurs. "Can you feel that? You. Not some destiny I think I'm called to. You. I'm with you. My strength. My soul. My heart. Feel it.Cynthia Hand
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Is this my purpose? The clouds don't have a lot of answers.Cynthia Hand
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Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.Cynthia Hand
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I can't leave you, " he says hoarsely." I can't leave you either, " I say, shaking my head. "I can't."" Then don't, " he says, and grabs me behind the neck and kisses me again, and the world is tilting, and everything goes black.Cynthia Hand
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I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.Cynthia Hand
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How's happiness class going, by the way?"" Okay, so far."" Are you feeling happy?" he asks with the hint of a smirk. I shrug. "The professor says that happiness is wanting what you have." Christian makes a thoughtful noise in the back of his throat. "I see. Happiness is wanting what you have. Well, there you go. So what's the problem, then?"" What do you mean?"" Why is the class only okay?"" Oh." I bit my lip, then confess. "Every time I meditate, I start glowing.Cynthia Hand
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Shawshank’s good, ” he says. “But you can’t beat the way Woody Harrelson kills zombies. He takes such joy in it.”“ Uh-huh, ” I say, making a face. “I’ve always found zombies to be the least threatening of the scary monsters. I mean, come on. They’re slow. They’re brain-dead. They don’t plot evil or try to take over the world. They just–” I put my arms out in front of me and give him my best zombie groan. I shake my head. “So not scary.”“ But they just. Keep. Coming, ” Christian says. “You can run, you can kill them, but more of them always pop up, and they never stop.” He shudders. “And they try to eat you, and if you get bitten, that’s it–you’re infected. You’re doomed to become a zombie yourself. End of story.”“ Okay, ” I concede, “they’re kind of scary, ” and now I’m vaguely disappointed that we’re not here to watch a zombie movie.Cynthia Hand