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"Normal? I'm not normal enough for you?' Carlos says. 'You want this guy instead? Did you notice his hair doesn't move? That's not normal. You want to date him again, go ahead. Hell, if you want to marry him and be Kiara Barra the rest of your life, be my guest.''That's not want I--''I don't want to hear it. Hasta,' Carlos says, ignoring me and walking away.I feel my face heat in embarrassment as I look at Michael. 'Sorry. Carlos can he abrasive sometimes.''Don't apologize. The guy obviously has major issues and, for the record, my hair moves... when I want it to."
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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
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"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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"Be as good as you would want to follow yourself."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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"Alex and Carlos-the tag team from hell. They're the last people I need shit from right now. If they decide to trail me, too, I'll have an entire entourage.'I'm fine.'Then sit up and talk to us.'Okay, in that case I'm not fine. Go away. I moan. 'Unless you want me to puke all over you."
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"Are you following me?' she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.'Yeah,' I say.'Why?'I give her the only honest and true answer I have. 'You're where I want to be."
Love
"Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?'Yeah, I say. 'As long as it's not in your house and you don't know about it, you're okay with us messin' around.'I know you're joking with me. You are joking with me, aren't you?'Maybe."
Family
"Some things need to be left unsaid."
Silence
"Whoa, who was that?'Madison Stone, Kiara mutters.'Introduce me to her.'Why?Because I know it'll annoy the shit out of you."
Humor
"Maggie squeezes my hand. It's a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first."
Hope
"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."
Tradition
"This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be."
Romance
"A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out me."
Technology
"The Professor doesn't have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I'd even settle for being called Chard."
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