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It wasn't badass. I don't really do badass.

Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 12
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New York City
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Amy Vincent
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Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.
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He frames my face with his hands as he says, Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me. We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, Forgive me.
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Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.
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He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.
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I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.
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Lucas, I repeated. I know you can hear me. The guy I love is still in there. Come back to me. Once again longed for the release of tears. Death couldn't keep me from you. And it can't keep you from me, not if you don't let it.
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I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of? ~Vic
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The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.
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Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.
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Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.
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You'll live forever, and being remembered by is the only immortality I'll ever need. If i only live on as a part of you--Bianca, that's my idea of Heaven
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I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see? I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already.
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Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.
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I know we only talked once- But it meant something to you. Our eyes met for only an instant. It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.
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We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
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Lucas had told me only one lie, ever he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.
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Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.
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I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.
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Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony, Lucas pointed out. Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
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Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.” Ranulf nodded. “That is the manner in which I roll.
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