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Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.Allie Burke
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You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, but– I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn’t matter to me what country you’re from. You women are fucking stupid, and I’m tired of saving you. All of you.Allie Burke
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What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That’s what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That’s all you can do.Allie Burke
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The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.Allie Burke
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Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.Allie Burke
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The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.Allie Burke
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The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.Allie Burke
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He was sort of beautiful. In his own dark, depressing way, but still. She was going to miss that stupid fucking beautiful face.Allie Burke
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It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.Allie Burke
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What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.Allie Burke
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Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain. The whole world was fucking bleeding.Allie Burke
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Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.Allie Burke