Laekan Zea Kemp Quotes

#1. It's comfortable and not because he makes you happy - the guy's a total asshole - but because you already know what to expect. You already know how he'll hurt you.

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#2. Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.

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#3. one was afraid of the darkness itself. They were afraid of what was in it.

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#4. He was the color of a hydrangea before it blooms, wilting like one too, every inch of him sunken and bruised.

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#5. You're still just waiting," she said. "And so is my mom. Who'd want a lifetime of waiting?" I stared at the soft lines of her lips. "Someone who knows what it is they're waiting for.

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#6. Because for every girl in the history of girls there is always that one guy she can't seem to shake. Even though she knows he's not just bad for her but probably the worst thing.

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#7. turning men into dribbling, fumbling jackasses and controlling the world and shit." "Controlling

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#8. Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her.

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#9. Fear, they had come to realize, not machines, is the most powerful weapon there is.

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#10. Diego thought about the night before, about the first breaths of morning chasing them from that old abandoned building, his arms twisted around her waist, finger's trembling against the soft skin of her hip as they stood within the ruins of a war Liliana would never understand.

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#11. But maybe I could give myself something too - permission to keep trying. Even when it felt like it was all for nothing. Even if trying was all I ever did, I shouldn't stop.

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#12. The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm.

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#13. People don't exist in just the light or the dark. They exist in the contrast. In the shadows where the two overlap.

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#14. People weren't made for this kind of thing, he said, the way I feel about you, how much I feel, no one ever has or ever will even come close to it.

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#15. My lip trembled, my throat raw, and I started to cry. But not because I didn't look perfect. But because I looked healthy and because I wasn't sure how long I'd stay that way.

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#16. Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed.

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#17. Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.

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#18. If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I'd end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers.

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