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#1. I was a pretty thing, and pretty things did not fare well in this world, not in the hands of men like him.

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#2. When the initial pain of shock wore off, I thought it strange I should feel the pain of his slap in my chest, but I did, and it hurt more than I ever thought possible.

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#3. I wanted to stay here forever, held tight to his chest, his fingers stroking my hair, his heart beating against my ear: you're-safe, trust-me, love-you. Love. Did I want him to love me? Yes. I wanted someone to love me.

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#4. She comes off as very empathetic, and even a little vulnerable herself, but she wouldn't be where she is today if she weren't a wolf under that wool suit.

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#5. Why couldn't he just keep being an evil, soulless bastard so I knew what his role was and I knew mine?

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#6. James never met anyone named Livvie. He never hurt her.

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#7. Thank you," Livvie muttered from the passenger seat.
"For what?" Caleb was still irritated. "For saving my life. Even if you're just going to put it in danger again," she whispered.

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#8. Livvie's screams rent the air. James flinched at the sound, but Caleb's blood sang. I am both men. - Caleb

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#9. All of the tears i made her made her shed, these were his favorite. If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones, he said.
I think they're sweeter.

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#10. Their love was obvious and I hoped that one day Livvie and I could have what they did ... without the skinny jeans ...

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#11. I wanted to say something, protest in some way, but then i felt the heat of him against the wetness i'd created, and i could've sworn i heard us sizzle. ~ Livvie

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#12. - What are you doing?
- I was curious
- About what?
- If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones.
- And?
- I think they're sweeter, but it could just be your face

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#13. I felt. I fucking felt and it was awful. - Caleb

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#14. I was treading the thin line of his patience while falling off the thin line of my sanity

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#15. No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was ... a thing, a commodity.

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#16. I'll show you a fag, you little bitch. I'll fuck-start your head!

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#17. Caleb taught me a few things about starting fights I can't win. He would want me to use my head and exploit anything I have to offer to get what I want. I force myself to portray calmness and sorrow. The sadness comes easy.

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#18. Yeah, but I'm the second most fucked up person I know, and when you put two negatives together, you get a positive. That's math, Caleb. Math is the language of the universe. You can't argue with the universe.

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#19. Mine.
The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he'd kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn't know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew ... Livvie was his.

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#20. Tell me you love me, Caleb," I whispered.
He kissed me, refusing. "I wish I could, Kitten

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#21. You're the coward, Caleb. Im not afraid to tell you how I feel. I'm not afraid to admit, that despite everything you've done to me, I love you.

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#22. Because she's going to help you understand something. I'm not yours to taunt. Don't think I haven't noticed the way you try to manipulate me. I invented that game.

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#23. Let a bitch enjoy her mental breakdown in peace.

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#24. I was insanely jealous."
"I know. It should make me happy, but it doesn't."
"Why ?"
"I'd rather make you happy, Caleb. I'd rather see you smile.

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#25. His embrace said all the things his lips could not or would not, they said you're safe and I will protect you maybe even some semblance of caring about me, however fucked up, but everything was fucked up. Through it all his lips only repeated, 'I made them pay'.

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#26. Claudia yelled at an obnoxious level. I must have made a face because she responded to me. "Get used to it, gorgeous man. If you're going to be part of our group, you're going to have to handle our rude-ass behavior. There's no room for politeness in a family." She winked at me. I smiled.

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#27. I've seen you handle your stick, Caleb. You're much better at it than I am

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#28. I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind ... you'll see that. -Caleb

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#29. Needless to say, I thought it was a bat-shit crazy idea (that's the technical term). The last thing I wanted was to reprise my role as Livvie's captor. - Caleb

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#30. My mind id more problem/solution orientated. Mad at me? Scream at me. Punch me if you're up for it. Please don't smile at me sweetly, act like nothing is wrong and then leave me disillusioned. - Caleb

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#31. It was worse
knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two.

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#32. She kisses my scars and I create new ones for her.

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#33. I blinked once, "if it's anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me... I'm tired of living through this shit just to step into deeper fucking shit. So if all you have planned for me is more torture, I think I'd rather die. Just do me one favor and don't... I don't want to die slow.

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#34. My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

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#35. A million dollars? A bit much don't you think?"
"Fuck you."
Caleb smiled, the self indulgent little shit. "My apologies," he mocked with a slight forward bow, "What I meant to say is: no pussy's that good. Though yours does come close.

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#36. Asshole FBI agents that want to shoot Girl Scouts.

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#37. Live for me, Kitten. Be all those things you'd never be with me. Go to school. Meet a normal boy and fall in love. Forgive me. It's time for you to go, Kitten. Time for us both, to go.

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#38. What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie

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#39. You're the best boyfriend ever. You let me ride in elevators and everything."
"Laugh it up, Pet. It'll be hilarious when we get stuck and the smell of unclean tourist is invading your nostrils."
"Don't worry, Sexy. I'll protect you.

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#40. I was ready to go with you. After everything you'd done. And you just ... left me. You have no idea what I had to go through. How hard I had to work to become ... human.

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#41. This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

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#42. You don't have to call me Livvie if you don't want to, Caleb. To be honest, it's kinda scaring me. You're scaring me

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#43. When I'm really frustrated with things," she giggles " ... I like to get online and change things in Wikipedia!"
This, bitch ... is weird.

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#44. We'd come so far, and I was oddly desperate to see where we could go.

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#45. He would forever be her captor and she would forever be his prisoner.

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#46. So, that's it? You think I'm just some idiot that fell for your bullshit! Well you're wrong! I fell in love with you, Caleb. I fell in love with your sick sense of humor. I fell in love with the way you protected me. You saved my life! - Livvie/Kitten

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#47. Love. What the hell did that word even mean? It got tossed around so flippantly, by everyone. What did it really mean? After all this time and everything that had happened, was he even capable?

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#48. I was prompted for a password. Why did she need a password? Didn't she trust me? I hope you're smiling, because I know I am. - Caleb

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#49. There isn't a permanent mark on me, Reed, not one. And you don't know how many times he was there to hold me together when I was sure I was going to fall apart. He's a monster," she sobbed, "I know he is. I know, and ... it doesn't matter to me anymore.

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#50. I was surprised he could do any amount of labor wearing the pants he had on. I don't understand skinny jeans for men. Who wants to walk around with their balls in a vise?

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#51. Like it or not, fight it or don't, your old life is over.

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#52. I didn't want to rush things. Well, I did want to, but I know when I shouldn't. I wanted to push her up against the door, rip off her panties, and ram myself into her, but I suspected she wouldn't appreciate it as much as I would

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#53. Softly, he inhales and exhales as we kiss. He never stops kissing me; he simply continues to steal my breath, returning it to me only when he's infused it with his essence. Pure lust lives inside him. Every breath I take should come from his lungs.

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#54. When he touched me, he made things feel better that i wasn't aware felt so bad

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#55. I can't have everything I feel reduced to a textbook description that fits me, and millions of other broken idiots.

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#56. But, I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made, and someone made Caleb.
Olivia

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#57. If you're sighing with contentment, you're either one sick fuck or you don't grasp the seriousness of the situation. While I no longer kill, I am a killer. A killer in love is a very dangerous thing.

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#58. He'd learned the hard way that there was no future when all he could see was revenge. The only thing revenge had ever given him was a brief moment of satisfaction, followed by an empty abyss. He was through with revenge. He wanted to feel full instead of empty, loved, instead of feared.

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#59. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive.

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#60. Caleb fed me better food during my kidnapping than these people. I laugh at my own joke

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#61. Dealing with Caleb was all about perspective. You couldn't appreciate his kindness until you'd felt his cruelty.

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#62. She wanted me. She wanted to give herself to me. I felt unworthy to accept such a gift, but it didn't stop me from clutching it fiercely to my chest.

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#63. Will you cry? Will you miss me?

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#64. That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb

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#65. What are you doing ?" She said and laughed.
"I was curious," he whispered.
"About what ?"
"If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones," he said.

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#66. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

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#67. It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.

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#68. Monsters don't born they made, but still monsters can love.

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#69. Make him love you," Ruthless Me whispered. "Make it so he can't live without you. The devil you know." I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb.

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#70. If I had thought grovelling would get Livvie into my car, I would have made a good show of it. I'm shameless. - Caleb

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#71. He kissed me everywhere, not like before, not angry. And God help me, it shouldn't have made a difference, but somehow it did.

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#72. The intensity with which he stared at me bordered on obscene.

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#73. He had told her he wasn't Prince Charming, but what he hadn't said, was he wished he could be.

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#74. Don't make me go back to trying to be someone I don't know how to be anymore.

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#75. I stabbed a piece of broccoli like it owed me money.

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#76. I don't want revenge, Caleb. I don't want to end up like you, letting some fucking vendetta run my life. I just want my freedom. I want to be free, Caleb. Not someone's whore ... not even yours.

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#77. What are you bracing for?" he asked. "I already told you I'm not going to hurt you."
Inexplicably, sobs caught in my chest, but I managed to respond, "You've already hurt me, Caleb. Why would you do that? Why?

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#78. I'm yours," she said, but then added, "only yours. And you're mine, only mine.

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#79. You kidnapped me! You've humiliated me, beat me, nearly gotten me rapped, and just a moment ago you had me suck a complete stranger's dick in a room full of twisted perverts. I love you, but I'm not the coward, Caled. I deserve to live or die on my own fucking terms.

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#80. Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know.

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#81. Everything is in the process of becoming something else. It's the law of change.

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#82. Easy, Caleb. Don't break her. Win her.

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#83. I don't like cramped spaces of the non tight, wet and warm variety. - Caleb

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#84. They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.

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#85. If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means.

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#86. I wanted him to say nice things to me, maybe even hold me. Strange did not begin to define my mood.

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#87. I'm writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging

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#88. I know you deserve to be happy. I know you deserve someone ... better, but I'm selfish. I want you. I want you bad enough to try and be someone better.

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#89. you're entire life is going to change. you should try to accept that, because there's no possible way to avoid it. like it or not, fight it or don't, your old life is over. it was over long before you woke up here."
~caleb

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#90. You're going to pay for that Pet,' he panted. The right side of his face sported an angry red hand print.

I shook out my hand, 'I already have. That was my change.

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#91. We'll take care of each other. I'm stronger now, Caleb. Whatever happens ... whatever happened, we can handle it together. Okay?

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#92. Everybody is fucked up, and we're all freaks in our own ways.

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#93. With each act,he traveled toward the center of that world,until one day,when he looked back,he found he could no longer see the way he'd come.

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#94. Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.

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#95. When I met her, she told me I was adorable and was her boyfriend."
"And you became her boyfriend?" I gave him a look. He smiled.
"She was wearing a tight shirt and I could see her boobs."
I couldn't help but smile.
"You did the right thing."
"I know." He shrugged.

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#96. I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

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#97. People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

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#98. I miss the restraints. In a way, they allowed me the freedom to writhe and flail. They gave me something and someone to fight against. Without them ... I feel like a traitor. No longer a prisoner, I seem to be allowing them to keep me here.

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#99. Promise me you won't leave." Livvie's arms gripped me tight.
"I promise. Can you say the same?" I almost dreaded the answer.
"I promise. I'm yours," she said.
"And I'm yours.

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#100. Explain it to me, then. You're about to die. Unburden your soul,

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