Sarah Rees Brennan - Unspoken (2012)

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I can try to wheedle information out of people," Holly offered. "For which I'll need a lower-cut top.

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Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men have admired my well-turned phrases.

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Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

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Oh, Rusty, why did you let her in?" Angela said. "We could have just lain down on the floor until she went away. We could've had a nice floor nap." "Have you guys eaten?" Kami asked. "I'm starving." "Cooking is so much trouble," Rusty said mournfully. "You could order in," Kami suggested. "Delivery people are so annoying," Angela responded.

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She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

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Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.

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Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

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I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.

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He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.

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You're crazy, said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. They said that about all the great visionaries. You know who else they said it about? Angela demanded. All the actual crazy people.

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Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old

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Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.

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Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?

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She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.

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If you weren't there, how do you know someone pushed her? Sergeant Kenn asked. Well …, said Jared. And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night? I was jogging? Jared offered. Without your shirt or your shoes? Uh, said Jared.

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Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

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Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

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One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. Baa, it flirted. Boo, said Jared. Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs. "It was giving me a funny look.

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Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

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Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

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Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.

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Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

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Listen to me. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn't matter. You're not one of them. You never were. You're not theirs. You're mine.

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They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen. Even you could not nap on this floor, Kami told Angela. I don't know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable, said Angela. Also possibly orthopedic.

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I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

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She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

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"Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

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Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

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For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

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"And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave."

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