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"Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."

"Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can."

"I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. "Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me. Stunned silence. I often had that effect."

"The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other."

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"

"In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love."
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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

"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."

"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

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

"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?"

"People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death."

"In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell."
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