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I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

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Lilith Saintcrow
Age: 49
Born: 1976
Born: January 1
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New Mexico
United States
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Are you listening, little bird?
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I wondered what I’d end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn’t even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever… well. It probably wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn’t drag that out of me. Ever.
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It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.
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What you cannot escape, you must fight what you cannot fight, you must endure.
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The only one, he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy? What?I- It makes him want to live up to it.
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He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even...
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His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?
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Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.
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I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.
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So you're a dom, huh? Nice. I stabbed my pancakes again. Kinky. You're the one who ties people up, babe.
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Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?
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He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
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Boys always get the best eyelashes it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.
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There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.
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The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.
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Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.
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I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.
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Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
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Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.
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And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?
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