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"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."

"But maybe I can", Emily answered. "And maybe I want to."

"Maya dropped Emily's rose on the bench and stomped away. Emily watched her weave through the rows of planters past the foggy windows for the exit and wanted to cry. Her life was a horrible mess. Her old, simple life-the one she'd had before this school year started-seemed like it belonged to a different girl entirely."

The Office was mentioned.

"'Does this make it better?' Emily pecked Maya on the lips."

"'You'll have to try harder than that to make it better,' Maya said seductively, lowering her green-yellow catlike eyes and reaching for Emily."

"They had decided to try this: sitting together, hanging out whenever they could, touching, kissing. As much as Emily tried to edit Maya from her life, she couldn't. Maya was wonderful, (...)"

"(...) o seu coração parecia maior dentro do peito, mais sensível, como um escaldão que protestasse ao mais leve toque. As palavras estavam todas ali, o como e o porquê da sua vida depois de Bright Falls, e ela queria libertá-las. Deixá-las ir. Deixar que outra pessoa as carregasse durante um bocado. Ou que pelo menos soubesse. Há muito tempo que ela não contava os seus segredos a ninguém."