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01Undated

Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes...

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02Undated

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.

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03Undated

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

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04Undated

Dismissed like a dog. Damon groped for his jacket behind him, found it, and wished that his groping for his sense of humor could be as successful. The faces around him were all the same. They could have been carved in stone.But not stone as hard as that that was coming together again around his soul. That rock was remarkably quick to mend—and an extra layer was added, like the layering of a pearl, but not covering anything nearly so pretty.

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05Undated

You didn’t feed from her,” he said, and this was not a question.“Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother.”One corner of Stefan’s mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were... knowing. Damon bridled.“I told the truth!”“Going to take it up as a hobby?

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06Undated

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

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07Undated

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

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08Undated

Tell Hugh," she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.

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09Undated

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

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10Undated

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

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11Undated

The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.

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12Undated

All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you in one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people who drive minivans listen wishing they were us.

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13Undated

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.

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14Undated

You wanted us all back together again!" Bonnie shouted at Caroline, and pulled the scandalized girl into the dance. Meredith, her dignity forgotten, joined them too. And for a long time in the clearing there was only rejoicing.

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15Undated

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

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16Undated

Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed th

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17Undated

For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?But he was tired of living in shadows. He was tired of the darkness, and of the things that lived in it. Most of all, he was tired of being alone.

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18Undated

I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.

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19Undated

Oh hell. They've got Mrs B in a bag!

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20Undated

Grandma, please don’t go. I’m frightened., Grandma. I need you!” “…never be afraid, Cassie. There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…

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21Undated

She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.Humans could never know each other that way.They could never really get into another person's head.All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.

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22Undated

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

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23Undated

This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.

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24Undated

I love you.I'll love you forever.But I have to do this.

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