Rachel Vincent - Stray (2007)

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The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

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He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.

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I'm glad you think so. I've always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it's nice to finally meet a fan.

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Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

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Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.

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Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

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A cat's body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying, Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission. Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

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Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

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Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck

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Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.

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Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.

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You mostly. Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for her. The boys tended to take care of each other but you were too much for anyone else to handle. I poked at the ball of yarn avoiding her eyes. I wasn't that bad. She smiled. You broke Ethan's arm. It was self-defense. He wouldn't let go of my foot. He was helping you tie your shoe.

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It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

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A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

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