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"I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out."
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"They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul."
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"Love fades. Mine has."
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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
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"Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes-well, it gives "breaking your heart a new meaning."
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"I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating.Where have you gone?Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven.I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back."
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"Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken."
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"I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together."
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"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
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"Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?' Archer asked. 'Because that's what you very nearly did."
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"Not every love comes to a successful conclusion."
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."
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"Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better."
Curiosity
"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
Destiny
"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."
Humor
"He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years."
Love
"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."
Mystery
"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."
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"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."
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"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."
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"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."
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