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#1. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

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#2. Said I'd lose you if I wasn't careful, and then he took you away from me. I thought I'd lost you.

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#3. The future is always bright; it isn't until you get there that you realize it isn't.

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#4. You can't keep it no matter how much you beg. Dragons are not pets, Ivy. He laughed.

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#5. I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

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#6. There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.

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#7. I lost you, but you're sitting right next to me!

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#8. The way I see it, we're all a little bit crazy, and that's what makes life interesting.

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#9. She's a bitch. Fake people deserve to be treated like they're made of tin-or plastic. I recycle, it's OK. Besides, you know how I feel about robots.

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#10. Can he tell that I'm fucked up? Can he tell that I've been torn to pieces and put back together again?

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#11. You're not alone, unless you choose to be." As she left my room, she said over her shoulder, "It's time to stop running.

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#12. Oh, I know. He cares about controlling you, using you, and what else am I forgetting? Oh yeah, claiming you. You're an object to him, something to be won.

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#13. If I was a little lighter and you were a little darker, maybe we could meet in the middle and have a real chance, but you're the sun and I'm the moon. We chase each other in the sky, but never meet for long.

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#14. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...

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#15. Okay, this conversation just crossed into Uncomfortable Land.

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#16. We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?

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#17. I'm not sure that it's something that can be fixed. There are things like that, ya know? they can get you and you can't be who you were before. It doesn't matter if it's fixed or not.

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#18. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life

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#19. At the same time, the idea of losing myself in him - of completely giving myself over to him - scares me. Fear holds me back.

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#20. Maybe I'm too jumpy, too untrusting. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life. I can't just click the delete key and start over.

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#21. He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.

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#22. The best decisions are the ones you can feel. They have no explanation - you just know.

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#23. No man won a woman's heart by running away.

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#24. No, I was just trying to burn a hole in the side of your face with my laser vision. It didn't work.

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#25. When you find the right person, yeah - this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before taking my hand and placing it over his heart. It's beating fast and hard. "Do you feel that? We haven't done anything yet and that's how I react to you.

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#26. I'll never leave if you keep feeding me bacon every day, Peter says to Aunt Beth.

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#27. It's stupid to rush things when you aren't ready.

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#28. Go fuck a monkey, Ferro. I don't have time for you or your fake sincerity.

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#29. I glance at him, wondering what kind of crazy sauce he ate to sit down next to me in here.

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#30. The darkness within her called to me. It's been my destruction and my savior, because it brought me to this woman and kept me coming back for more.

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#31. You don't know him the way I do. He's not like that. A broken heart manifests differently in different people. Don't pretend to know how he feels or what he thinks.

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#32. Sometimes those silent gestures mean the most. They're the glue that holds our fragile lives together.

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#33. Honesty is what makes a person. At the end of his life it's one of the things people remember. Your legacy isn't left by fame or fortune. It's left by the footprints of compassion and honesty.

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#34. I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

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#35. His shirt is covered in my sorrow and stained with my tears.

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#36. Just because he's not like that doesn't mean he doesn't care.

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#37. What kind of married couple uses a pole on their wedding night?

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#38. Yes this is Mr. Ferro and Mr. Ferro is sort of grumpy, one hundred percent of the time. Please excuse me, I need to go find my box.

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#39. That's exactly why I was so dangerous - I didn't give up.

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#40. If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.

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#41. Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit.

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#42. Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt.

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#43. Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and now I've blanched the color from your cheeks and caused you nothing but pain.

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#44. You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.

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#45. I've tired so hard to stay away from you, buy your soul is so powerful. It can't be ignored. It calls to me. It's like trying to resist every lust you've ever suffered - all at once. I feel that every time I see you.

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#46. You can. Trust me, baby. I'll take care of you. Let go, let everything else fade away. As Sean speaks, his voice becomes deeper and more unguarded.

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#47. Don't make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

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#48. You are who you are. Deal with it.

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#49. Go fuck a cactus, classless cunt.

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#50. I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control - I freaked out.

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#51. Avery: Yeah right, very funny, when are you going to shoot me and dump my body at captree? This is Getting old.

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#52. You can't jump in the box, you lunatic.
"I'm so playing with the box."
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"Kids never want the toy, only the box

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#53. Sometimes, the big picture is too big to see from up close.

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#54. Like calls to like, soul calls to soul,

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#55. I believe in white knights, but the only knight in this story is me. No one saved me. I've fallen so far that I can't even see the way out anymore. I'm at the bottom of Hell and I found you.

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#56. You trusted me to do things that terrify you because it's what I needed. I can do the same for you. I can hold you. I can let you in.

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#57. Col-lide: to come together with a solid or direct impact

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#58. If it was going to kill me or carry me off, I thought it would have done so already. But it just sat there, looking at me. Its tail swooshed suddenly, and it felt like I was looking at an overgrown cat in reptile form.

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#59. It's not like I invited you. Oh, and shotgun. I'm not sitting next to the turkey.

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#60. What are you thinking in that beautiful head of yours?

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#61. There's a big empty box filled with packaging peanuts and it's totally calling my name.

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#62. Brie's expiration date on revenge was never.

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#63. Well, that's what I'm here for, to save the world from suckage.

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#64. I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

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#65. I want to get past this. I need to. It's been too long. My life is living me.

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#66. Tell me, where do I stand compared to Neil and the ankle biter over there? He's kind of hot, in a Howard the Duck kind of way

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#67. No. I sliced my own shirt for fun. Everyone's going to be dressing like this tomorrow.

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#68. It's hard not to admire you when you're standing so perfectly.

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#69. I love him with every ounce of my being, and I know that I always will.

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#70. Is that code for sex or are we really having coffee?" Peter laughs and feigns shock, putting his hand over his chest. "My God! Is that why all those women at Starbucks keep trying to have coffee with me?

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#71. Fear is like love. It has the same depths, the same intensity. Sean

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#72. Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade. Even if it is him.

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#73. He's grinning hard, showing a dimple on his cheek that I haven't seen in forever.

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#74. Most girls want the right guy. They aren't looking for a one-time thing.

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#75. He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.

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#76. I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks.

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#77. The client wants an innocent young girl and you will fulfill that role. He doesn't want to hear your life story or why you entered this line of business. You are forbidden to discuss weighty matters or your personal life. Do you understand?

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#78. It's a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren't enough.

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#79. Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

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#80. I can be anything and everything else for you, but I can't be the one who makes you fall.

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#81. That man has some seriously oversized ovaries. Can you say PMS? He barked at anyone and everyone before shoving his way outside.

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#82. Sometimes it's better to hold onto what you have, rather than risk what might be.

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#83. Being normal is overrated. Normal gets you what - the dolt husband with the 2.5 kids and the house with the dog? You seriously want that? I mean, one of those kids is going to be really funny looking, by the way, all cut in half like that. Who wants half a kid?

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#84. What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess we got that one wrong?

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#85. Hearts made of stone don't bend, they crack when pushed too far.

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#86. I can't bullshit you. In all this time, you're the only person I can't fool. It's like you're bullshit-proof.

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#87. You're like, a kick ass ninja of niceness.

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#88. There's something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn't stop. There is no controlling it - love does what it wants when it wants.

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#89. When you said you were giving her a ring, I wanted to make sure she didn't eat it by accident. Who puts a ring in a muffin?

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#90. I wanted to hate you, but I just couldn't.

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#91. I mean, what if you don't get over him? What if you just learn how to get on without him? People who've been in love have that haunted look in their eyes. It's like a piece of them is unattainable, forever held back and protected at all cost.

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#92. I can't speak. I have no voice. I just stare at his dark blue yes. It feels as though I let the lifeboat sail away. I'm drowning in a sea of pain. He reached out, but I can't take his hand.

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#93. Holy fuck. What a buncha stupid white boys. Why don't they just invite the whole fucking police force into the bar? Avery this has gotta stop. Like now

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#94. So, are you guys a thing? Have you seen his thing?

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#95. You think you can run through every option, good or bad, and determine which path to take. Sometimes, no matter how much you consider something, you still can't see the bad coming. Sometimes the only way through the fire is directly through the center - we can't skirt it, and that's not our fault.

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#96. Friendship is like that - bad things happen, and they're usually at the worst time. A real friend shows up.

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#97. I love you, Trystan Scott, every bit of you; past, present, and future.

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#98. Her head titled to the side and her eyebrows crept up her face. It was her uh-durrr face, she was just too kind to actually say it to me.

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#99. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.

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#100. Everyone has a secret. Some people will do anything to protect it.

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