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You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the n...more

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I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

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How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

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Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

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Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

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Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

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Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have ...more

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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

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Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

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Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray

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One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever cha...more

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She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror ...more

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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.