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“Really? It's not just the afterglow of amazing sex?"
He laughed. "I can say it again later if you want, but since I'm planning on having more sex with you, I don't know when there won't be an amazing afterglow”

“I feel so amped up. I'm tired and wired. I don't know if I should sleep or run five miles."

“It's going to take a little time for you to feel back to normal. Re-entry is never easy."
She cocked her head to the right, giving him a thoughtful look. "You've done it before?"
"Twice, but I was never undercover that long. One job was four days, another was two months, but it still felt strange to be operating under my own name again."

“You see, Sophie, we don't always need an FBI agent to do something wrong to get our way. Sometimes we just have to help them do something right by pointing them in the direction we want them to go."
Elena's brain was a terrifying thing

But unlike her father, she couldn't leave anyone a voicemail. She couldn't apologize or tell someone—Damon—that she loved him.
Perhaps it was better that way. Her father's messages hadn't really eased her mind; they'd only given her more to worry about.

“Wyatt is a little unapproachable."
"He's been living in the shadows for a long time; it's isolating to be undercover that long. Sometimes you can forget who you are."

They sent a message to anyone else who might be having doubts about paying for protection."
"I can't believe people still do that," she muttered.
"They do it a lot more than you would think,

Because she hadn't seen his body, hadn't said good-bye, hadn't gone through the formality of a funeral or a service, his passing had felt surreal, as if maybe it wasn't even real

When he was with her, he was a thousand percent with her. She took up all the space, all the oxygen in the room. She became everything—a rather terrifying thought.

don’t do love, Sophie. I'm not good at it, and it doesn't work out. I might be exactly what you want in the night, but I will never be what you want in the morning.