I grin, and my heart beats a little faster as everything slowly sinks in. It’s just going to be the two of us here all summer. No interruptions. No family. Just me and the object of my adolescent daydreams. I’m not sure what god or goddess
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“I feel something blossom within my chest. He’d kill for me. How many people could say that about someone they know? Apparently, I’m a psychopath because that turns me on a little bit.”
― Sem
― Sem
“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
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“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
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