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Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.'' Quiet, Sage, ' he said. 'I’ll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.Richelle Mead
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It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.Richelle Mead
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Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you’ve made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another’s. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team … inseparable and unbreakable.Richelle Mead
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I knew I sounded hysterical, and Adrian’s calmness only drove that home. “I think I have an idea, ” he said. “An idea that’ll get us some hardcore protection … but I don’t know how you’ll feel about it.”“ I’m open to anything, ” I assured him. He hesitated a moment and gave a decisive nod. Then, to my complete and utter astonishment, he got down on his knees before me and clasped my hands in his. “Sydney Katherine Sage, ” he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. “Would you do a brooding, deadbeat Moroi the honor of being his wife?.Richelle Mead
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We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.Richelle Mead
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What in the world is this abomination?” Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?Richelle Mead
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I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them .. . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day.Richelle Mead