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My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.Rachel Caine
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Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. “Hey, Dark Princess? Here’s your crap. Also, bite me.Rachel Caine
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.Rachel Caine
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I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.'Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.' I have a gun, Shane, ' Eve sighed. What, you think i actually loaded yours?' Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed.Rachel Caine
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Oh hell no. Guys don’t talk about that crap.”“ You’re serious.”“ Really.”“ What do you talk about?” Shane looked at her as if she were insane. “You know. Stuff. We’re not girls. We don’t talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.” Claire rolled her eyes and said, “Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don’t care.Rachel Caine
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I hate traveling with amateurs.Rachel Caine
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Hey.” Shane’s hip nudged her chair, and he bent over, putting his mouth very close to her ear.“ What are you doing?”“ Thinking.”“ Stop.”“ Stop thinking?”“ You’re doing way too much of it. It’ll make you go blind.” She laughed and turned her face toward his. “I think you’re thinking of something else.Rachel Caine
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You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?Rachel Caine
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Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting people's brains into computers. This was a normal day. No wonder she was screwed up.Rachel Caine
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I can’t take the ring. It means–it means too much to you. It’s all you have left of them.”“ That’s why it’s better if you have it, ” he said, and held out the box, cupped in one hand.“ Because you can make it a better memory. I can barely look at this thing without seeing the past. I don’t want to see the past anymore. I want to see the future.” He didn’t blink, and she felt the breath leave her body. “You’re the future, Claire. .Rachel Caine
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Shane was sitting on the curb next to the old, cracked gas pumps, eating a candy bar. Claire plopped down next to him. “Half?” she asked.“ And now I know you’re my girlfriend, since you’re not afraid to demand community property, ” he said, and pulled off the uneaten half to hand it over.Rachel Caine