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Ally Carter

"There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it."

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"There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it."

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"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

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"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

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"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

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"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

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"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

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"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

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"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

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"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

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"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

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"Kat,' Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.'Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell.''I let myself in; hope that's okay.'Hale smiled. 'Or the alarm.'She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. 'You're due for an upgrade.'Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her.'She returns.' He crossed his arms across his bare chest. 'You know, I could be naked in here."
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"I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... Know."
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"Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork,' Ms. Chancellor says.'Which one?' I try to tease. 'You've got a lot of forks to choose from.''From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear.''Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting."
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"Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time."
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"I get it, even if Jamie can't put it into words. There are some books you can never get rid of, even if you don't like the ending."
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"And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last."
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