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Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

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You're on the verge of getting your soul and your life back and he's still what determines your happiness ? You don't need a relationship to be happy, Georgina.

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Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.

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I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

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For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

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I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

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You make a joke out of everything. Life's too painful not to.

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Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

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Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But... it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

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Can't you... I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

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His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of my word back. The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. Not only that, I had my life back -my own life. I would protect Lissa, I would serve, but I was finally my own person.

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Wasn't that kind of the basis of passion? I didn't know that either. The only thing I knew for sure was that this kiss had been a lot like the last one. Nice, but it didn't blow me away. My heart sank. There was something wrong with me. Everyone was always going on about how socially inept I was. Did it extend to romance as well? Was I so cold that I'd spend my life never feeling anything?

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It's as easy as we choose to make it, he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. At least, this decision is. Nothing's truly easy, Georgina. Love and life... they're wonderful, but they're hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren't perfect.

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This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

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A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I'd spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn't know. Did it matter? I didn't know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

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I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

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Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

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The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay—more than good-looking. He's hot—like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.

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In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn't focus on any of it. I've forgotten everything. No, you haven't. His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. Just relax and focus." His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

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I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?

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Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

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Since when do we even play games? Since when don't we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between. I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. Hello, Carter.

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And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

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I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero. Nonsense, he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn't so damned good-looking. Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine. I think you're proving my point for me, I said dryly

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I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

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Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

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I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

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Knowing Lissa missed me hurt almost more than if she'd completely written me off. I'd never wanted to hurt her. Even when I'd resented her for feeling like she was controlling my life, I'd never hated her. I loved her like a sister and couldn't stand the thought of her suffering now on my behalf. How had things gotten so screwed up between us?

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Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive — and I was glad I was.

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