Kami Garcia - Beautiful Darkness (2010)

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It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

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Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

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I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

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When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me? Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

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High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

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Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley

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We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

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A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

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Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

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Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

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I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.

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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick...

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Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

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Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

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There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

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I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that.

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You can read minds, and you didn't tell me? Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin' your chain. He looked away. Are you doin' it now? You're doin' it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head. He backed away from me and into the bookshelf. I can't read your mind, you idiot.

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Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.

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Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

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Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.

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Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.

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She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

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Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

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So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

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There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

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