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Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. ...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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It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

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Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn’t say it was. And...more

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It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

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Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything...more

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She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

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Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

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You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

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Because women never say what they think.

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I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked a...more

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I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I ma...more

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I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the ...more

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Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart.

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be...more