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"His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."
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"Now me, said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of? "I beg your pardon? "What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, he added, helpfully."
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"I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors."
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"Unknown is interesting like the Dead zone... you never know where you will go."
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"He is the greatest mystery I had even known, one that always had me craving just a little bit more."
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"I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many."
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"The invisible God."
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"I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out."
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"Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon?''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting."
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"The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
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"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."
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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."
Desire

"Can't get away from your own self."
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"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."
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"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."
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"I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers."
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"Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer."
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"She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me."
Psychology

"His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook."
Mystery

"She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had."
Emotion
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