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01c. 1981 AD

I just don't— Ronan. My ears are bleeding!"Ronan turned down the music.

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02c. 1981 AD

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

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03c. 1981 AD

Please kiss that girl a million times.

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04c. 1981 AD

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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05c. 1981 AD

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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06c. 1981 AD

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

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07c. 1981 AD

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 all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?

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08c. 1981 AD

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

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09c. 1981 AD

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

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10c. 1981 AD

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

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11c. 1981 AD

But I'm not dead," Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

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12c. 1981 AD

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

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13c. 1981 AD

What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see.

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14c. 1981 AD

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said.

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15c. 1981 AD

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

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16c. 1981 AD

The world needs more love at first sight.

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17c. 1981 AD

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

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18c. 1981 AD

Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.

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19c. 1981 AD

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

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20c. 1981 AD

Reality's what other people dream for you.

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21c. 1981 AD

You don't have to do this," Ronan said."There isn't anything else, man.""There's reality."Kavinsky laughed the word. "Reality! Reality's what other people dream for you.""Reality's where other people are," Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one!""Jus

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22c. 1981 AD

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

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23c. 1981 AD

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

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24c. 1981 AD

Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, “There are rules on paper and rules too big for paper.”It takes me a moment to realize what this means, which is that there really is no rule against it, but they’re not going to let me ride anyway. This is like when Gabe and I would play games when we were younger — as soon as I got close to winning, he would change the rules on me.And just like back then, the unfairness of it makes my chest burn.

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