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Forever?"Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie."Longer.

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Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intol...more

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They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were a...more

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I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yel...more

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

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Please kiss that girl a million times.

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I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

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I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

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We were miles away from our real lives.

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I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could ...more

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You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

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You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.