“What should I say? ‘Well, the murder was a little upsetting, and the fire did worry me a bit. I was nearly date-raped and my ex best friend is crazy. But, hey, at least I’m making an A in History’?”
“Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I’ve found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don’t think you can just feed on me.”
“I hate it when therapy jumps out and surprises you like that.”
“The voice in her head told her not to trust him. But then, the voice in her head didn't trust anyone.”
“I wush for his own sake that he'd have a big steaming cup of calm the hell down.”
“—Bonitas botas, Sheridan.
Allie no miró atrás.
—Sé bueno, Carter West.
Había recorrido la mitad del pasillo cuando oyó su respuesta.
—Eso siempre.”
“That was the worst date I ever had. And we. Are so. Over.”
“Her eyes fluttered open. She was lying in Sylvain's lap, his arms tight around her. She reached up and touched his face wonderingly.
"Why are you crying?" she whispered.
He didn't answer. Instead he rocked her like a baby, his face in her hair. Listening to her breathe.”
“Would you like me to take the first shift?’ Sylvain’s voice was pure silk.
A tendon worked in Carter’s jaw.
‘I want you to go f …’ he started, but Allie grabbed his arm.
‘Carter no. Calm down.’ She looked at the two of them. ‘You can both stay with me until one of you has to go somewhere, OK? Then the other will take over. No fighting. With each other, anyway.”
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.”
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
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