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"Nope,' he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. 'Mine now."
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"In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body."
"Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you."
"How long since you had sex? Aeron asked his friend. Another moan. "Two-three days. Paris wiped his mouth with the back of his wrist. Which meant Paris hadnYt had a female since before their return. But Aeron knew Lucien had flashed the warrior into town every night theyYd spent in the desert for just that reason. Had the warrior had trouble finding a willing partner? "Let me take you into town. You can- "No. Only want Sienna. My female. Mine."
"Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one."
"Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere."
"I' means the Self and 'my' means what belongs to the self. All that is 'my' is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry."
"Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?"
"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
"When she reaches down to touch his shoulder-a gesture only a few species and a million or so years removed from lifting a leg and marking him as her territory with a stream of urine-enough bracelets and bangles to lay track across the Australian Outback slide down her arm and come to a jangling stop at her wrist."
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"Hours of being asked:'Do you understand?' But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask.'What does it feel like?"
"I can't - I can't think about anything or anyone else,' he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. 'I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe - I just - 'Liam, please,' I begged. 'You're tired. You're barely over being sick. Let's just... Can we just go back to the others?'I love you.' He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. 'I love you every second of everyday, and I don't understand why, or how to make it stop - ' He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.'I know it's wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like I'm sick. I'm trying to be a good person, but I can't. I can't do this anymore."
"Life isn't fair.' I said. 'It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You'll make plans, and it'll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they'll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You'll try for something and won't get it. You don't have to find meaning in it; you don't have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That's your job."
"Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past."
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