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I can't make it fade.

We have to keep moving. If I stopped now, I knew I would never be able to start again.

Oh my God, Green," I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. "Just take the damn socks
and put the kid out of his misery.

Those tour group companies that let you ride the donkeys down

Because," I said finally, "in the end, she couldn't leave her family behind.

Nicholas wondered briefly if it was his destiny to be surrounded by women possessing varying degrees of murderous intent.

My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark

There was nothing judgemental or accusatory about the question, so why did I still feel like an idiot?

Give 'em hell, darlin

I gave in to that feeling. I didn't care what it made me -weak selfish, stupid, terrible.

I was just an okay person.

I want the whole of you, and would never give you less of me.

Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

It wasn't a weakness to have those thoughts, to feel that need to help another, to save lives. It made one human.

We love you. If you need help, look for my parents - they're using the names Della and Jim Goodkind - and tell them I sent you.

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not fair.

These people couldn't be counted on for anything. All of their promises bled into lies.

Don't just get up and go like that again-like you always do.

He could silence me, but he had no power over my mind.

I'm a monster. You know, one of the dangerous ones."
"No, you aren't, you're one of us.

All cities are jealous of Paris, but Prague is the envy of Paris.

I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.

When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

No one can reason with another person so furious she can barely see straight. Well.

I kept my head down but my thoughts moving.

Never. Never again would he allow any other man to define him, set his course.

Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the darl.

D-Dorothy - " My throat burns. It's the only way I know the words are leaving it. "Guess we ... shouldn't have left Oz. ...

If he were to fall over dead, would they just push the body out of the seat and use it as a footrest, do you think?

Oh, thank god. I saw you both on the ground & I thought you killed each other

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone
and maybe that needed to change.

Everyone knew the truth, but the truth didn't live inside them the same way it did for us.

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

I would like to register the fact that this fucking sucks," she said.
"Noted," he said, shutting the gate.

His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.

Only, they've done such a good job of making this place hell that I wouldn't be surprised if the real one turned out to be a much nicer place.

My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.

We are, all of us, on our own journeys.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

There is nothing, not even a flicker of life in his face.

All around the garage and house were pieces of me, but they couln't put them together. They didn't see the completed puzzle standing in front of them.

And the open road rolled out in front of us.

Perhaps it was a blessing that he couldn't cross paths with himself, lest he be tempted to shoot himself before making the deal with Ironwood.

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

I love you. It's our beginning, our middle, and one day
please God, a long way from here
our end. And It is the truth.

In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young.

He would not surrender to the disaster of loving her.

Me and nice things didn't go well together.

A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?

I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.

It's always easier to take something than work for it ...

Are you okay? Were you hurt?"
"No, Gran, she's dying. She's bleeding out at your feet.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side.
He called her his equal in spirit.

Cate:"What are you doing?"
Ruby:"Locking Clancy Gray in a closet.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."
"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

I want you to remember that - it's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises." Etta

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character."
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly.

I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling ... How did you tell someone that?

I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.

He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.

Try again, I've gotten much better at detecting your bullshit

People are more than what a piece of paper or computer file says about them.

Next time it'll be your nuts.

Clancy. You really want to pretend we're on the same team?"
"Aren't I basically the mascot?

That's right, you get him, Mary. Don't let him change the subject!

Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen.

This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.

I'm not saving you, I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"
Because you would never leave me.

Great. We were the goddamn Rainbow Connection.

Who do we like, then?" I pressed.
"We like us," Liam said after a while. "And that's about it.

Seeing Chewie's look, Han added, "Hey, you're the married one. Find

Calm down, I ordered myself. You're no good like this. Get a grip.

Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.

That was not like riding a bike, you asshole!

They'd taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.

It's not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there's no way of changing it.

This whole time, from the moment we met, he'd been waiting for me to realize he'd known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.

We were made for each other.

Chubs gave me a weary sigh. Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the monster, not the monster itself.

Nico looked up at me, and I finally understood that he was waiting for Jude, not for Clancy.

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

This is a place we don't have to lie.

Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn't function right when they finally had to return their own.

It was amazing how small you could feel when someone wouldn't so much as look at you.

She didn't need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.

I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you, I said softly.

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

Sometimes we don't know what we're looking for until we find it.

Revolutions are won with blood, not words.

Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.

I couldn't help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.

The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine.