Kimberly Derting Quotes & Sayings

#1. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

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#2. Hey, A-D-D," she called out to Claire, "come over and try these on.

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#3. Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.

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#4. He leaned in then and kissed me again, sweet and soft and tender, silencing my arguments and stealing my breath, making me wonder how one simple gesture could be so tragically lovely.

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#5. He nudged her with his shoulder but didn't say anything. They stayed like that for a while, enjoying the silence of being alone and enjoying each other's presence. It was easy ... and comfortable.

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#6. Violet could see the fear in his eyes. "I have to tell you, the idea of losing you scares the hell out of me, Vi. You know that, don't you?" He sighed heavily, still holding on to her as he stared back at her. "Promise me, no more gang fights.

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#7. She sat down on a wooden bench that was bolted to the floor ... in case some high school hooligan like herself decided to make off with it, she supposed.

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#8. Is that how it is now, we're back to just friends?" Violet asked, rasing her eyebrows at him challengingly. "I'll remember to keep that in mind next time we're 'doing homework'.

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#9. Recently, the very thought of going to the dance with Grady made Violet's skin itch, as if she might be breaking out in hives-or more likely a bad case of second thoughts.

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#10. I've been so worried about strange men following you around that I forgot how dangerous Homecoming Queens can be.

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#11. Nothing's going to happen to you," Max interrupted, gripping my shoulders and forcing me to look at him. "Because you're not going to do it. You're going to tell her to go to hell!

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#12. She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil.

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#13. In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.

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#14. No, I tried to use Lissie. But apparently you're more pigheaded than I gave you credit for. I thought for sure that would do it. Instead, it backfired on me, and you agreed to go to the dance with ... someone else.

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#15. Trust had become a commodity that few could afford.

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#16. She fell asleep like that, wrapped in warmth.
Wrapped in Jay.

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#17. Cushions had been sliced apart and were bleeding stuffing onto the floor.

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#18. She picked up a handheld grenade launcher, cradling it like a baby.

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#19. His eyes warmed, even as his brows drew together. "So are you saying we have your cooperation? That you'll agree to be our queen?" "I'm saying that you're guaranteed not to have my cooperation if you don't help me.

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#20. The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

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#21. I'd offer to take you for a test-drive, but I'm afraid that Supercop over there would probably Taser me with his stun gun. So you'll have to wait until tomorrow,

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#22. Odd how somehow she'd once thought she hated had become such an integral part of her daily life. Like breathing.

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#23. Charlie?" he said, pulling mme back to face him. "I do love you." My breath caught on his words ... words I'd waited so long to hear.

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#24. She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that.

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#25. We don't want that, Charlie. We don't want to fight, but we can't just go on like this. We deserve to choose what we want to be, who we want to be.

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#26. I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.

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#27. 1) I'm, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS RULE THE WORLD, AND STUFF.

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#28. For some, times of change can be trying. But these times can also present great opportunity, a chance for us to show what we're made of, to show our dignity and fortitude. A chance for us to grow.

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#29. She felt Jay squeezing her hand with his. It was warm.
It made her feel safe and attached to the world.

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#30. The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined what language they could speak, what jobs they could do, or who they could be

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#31. You even used to make up funny stories about those poor little lost creatures of yours. Remember Bob, the squirrel banker who forgot to pay his electric bill so he froze to death?

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#32. They lay there like that, in a different kind of silence now, watching the lake and the stars, listening to the night, each basking in the warmth of the other.

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#33. Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth.

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#34. Paranoia was always a potential side effect.

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#35. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her hand. If it's all right right you, I think i'll keep ahold of you anyway. I don't want to be responsible for letting you fall again.

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#36. She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.

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#37. C'mon, lets get out of here. It's too dark. Besides, its more fun if I can see you while you're bitching me out.

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#38. I swear that boy can't function without you, not even at lunch.

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#39. In the end, all that's left is an echo.

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#40. She didn't want to smile
this was no time for smiling
but she couldn't stop herself. Charlie, it seemed, was something of a bad ass.
- Brooklyn

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#41. As if their actions were synchronized, they both jumped off the swings at the same moment, Jay racing toward the laddered steps as Violet rushed to reach the bottom of the slide.

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#42. Curiosity is an addictive drug.

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#43. What are you so afraid of?

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#44. I miss the smell of him. I miss his lips and his strong arms. I miss him.

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#45. I pledge to keep you safe.

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#46. Story of my life, she thought miserably. She was never willing to put herself out there.

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#47. And are you trying to tell me you aren't a little bit fascinated by me?

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#48. And touching him - I would have to stop doing that as well. But not now. Later, perhaps.

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#49. Everyone has regrets, I suppose. You can't choose one path without missing out on another,

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#50. He was the last person in the world she wanted to get away from.

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#51. Chelsea, for the love of everything good and holy, please...please stop ruining my friend." ~Jay

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#52. Jules stood up and stretched gracelessly. "Let's hurry up and pay before she"-she indicated Claire with a flick of her thumb-"sees something shiny and we lose her again.

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#53. But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more to do with who she was, and what she was willing to give of herself, than it did with the powers she possessed
- Charlaina di Heyse

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#54. I swear, Claire-bear, I am going to call your mom and tell her you need to start riding the short bus. You really need to start practicing your bitchy comments.

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