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“Did you hear that? They are paying her to sleep now.”
“Praise the Lord. She’s found her dream career.”

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"Promise me you'll stay alive long enough to stab me in the back?"
I could make good on that promise.

He's coming for me.
And I won't hesitate again.

It's dangerous, how much I think of her.
How much everything reminds me of her.

I should follow her. I should follow her and take her by surprise I should be smart about this. Every bit of training screams at me to handle this delicately, deliberately.
But where's the fun in that?
I'll handle her as delicately as she did my father.

If she is Shadow, then I am Flame.
This girl is the very thing I can't seem to escape - can't seem to go anywhere without the remnants of her following. Where I am, she is.
Whether it's in the flesh or in the fragments of my mind.
And where there is a flame, there is always a shadow.
She is my inevitable.

'You promised to be my undoing. So, prove it. Prove it. Hate me enough to make me want you. Ruin me.’

'I'd watch your tongue, Prince. Unless you'd like to swallow it.'

'Oh, but you are my undoing. My deliverance. My downfall disguised as a deity. You are my ruin.’

This will be the rest of my life. Forced to love her from a distance. 
Mourn the loss of her each day.
She is the torture I may not survive.
She is my undoing.
She was supposed to be my forever.
But the beast doesn't get the beauty.

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"Any which way, it will make the moment she bites out your throat all the sweeter."
"She's bitten me before, you know. It wasn't so bad."

“You asked me what I wanted with you. But all that matters is that I do want you. And I have you.”
“I thought that you believed that there could be no love where one person was bound. Isn’t that what you told Tiernan?”
“You need not love me.”
“What if I did? If I do?”
“What if? Do not play word games with me.”
“You’re right. Let me be plain. I do—“
“No. I need no protestations of your feelings. Love can be lost, and I am done with losing.”
“You want me. You can have me.”

"I never pretended to feelings that weren't real."
"Never? Would you really have endured my kiss if you didn't think you needed me on your quest?"
"I would have endured it, yes. I would endure it again right now."
"That's not fair."
"Surely you could tell I liked it. I even liked it when you bit me. I might have a few tiny scars yet from the points of your teeth."
"Don't be ridiculous."
"I so love being ridiculous."
"You cannot really expect me to believe you liked being bitten?"
"Didn't you mean for me to enjoy it a little?"

“I hope he will give you half the delight he’s given me.”

"Come back to me.
I thought love was a fascination, or a desire to be around someone, or wanting to make them happy.
Until I met you, I didn't understand to feel loved, one has to feel known. I had never really loved because I hadn't bothered to know the other person. But I know you. And you have to come back to me, Wren, because no one gets us but us.
We are messes and we are messed up and I don't want to go through this world without the one person I can't hide from and who can't hide from me.
Come back.”

"I hate being unwell," he says.
"You're not sick. You are recovering from being stabbed—or rather, throwing yourself on a knife."
"You would have done the same for me.”
"I would not."
"Liar."

“I’ll be outside, yelling at people.”
“Try not to enjoy it too greatly.”

“I recognised your game. Not at first, but long before Jude. She didn’t want to believe me, and I am never going to tire of crowing about being right. I knew what you were up to before she did.”

“And if you decide you want to risk your life, perhaps you could also risk a little personal discomfort and let your family in on your plans."
"I will take that under advisement."

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“I think the stars are shining brighter to try and compete with you.”

“All I want, Cait…”
“You want me to give up my magic? You want me to be useless?”
“I want to love you.”
“Then love me. Love me like this.”
“I do. That’s why I don’t want to see you hurt. I want to see you healed.”
“If I’m broken, then it’s beyond repair, Callen.”

“I don’t pity you. Caitrin, I love you. I love you, every inch of you. There is nothing so ruined that it can’t be restored, and no one so wretched that they can’t be redeemed. Nothing will stop me from loving you.”

“Beloved, you are worth more than all the stars in the sky and all the blood in my veins. Every drop. And it is only my love and my life that can free you.”

“Raeburn women do not waste time on dafty woppers.”

For those still searching to be fully loved
there is nothing you need to do
except receive the free gift—
Love has a name;
His name is Jesus.

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‘We've lived this now. It's not some distant horror that happened to other people. We can never pretend that we're safe again. This can never not be real, and that's frightening. But I'm more frightened that I'll allow fear to keep me from living. I'm going to live. Not being safe is all the more reason. I don't think we should allow those people to take away one more life.’

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I find them both disconcerting and fascinating in equal measure.

I am drawn to watching his face, as though through his dreams, I will learn his secrets.
Something is very wrong with me.

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"Yes, you do. And it doesn't even matter, because I'm not putting on a show here, Heiress. I'm not playing at being overprotective or pretending that, for once in my life, I want to do the right thing. I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble. This is who I want to be, for you."

"You make me see myself as a person who's capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you—on us, against the world. You don't get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn't who you are, and it's not what I want. You, have always made me bold. You're the one who pushes me out of my comfort zone. You don't get to box me back in now."