"I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying."

Survival, Confusion, Danger, Humor

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"I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying."

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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

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"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."

Power

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Innocence

"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."

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"I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts."

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"Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to."

Ethics

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke."

Romance

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"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

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