Melissa de la Cruz - The Van Alen Legacy (2009)

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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

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You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

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The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

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They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.

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When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.

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Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then...

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It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

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I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

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Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

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