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There's a monster living inside of me, eating little bits of me everyday, and I can't seem to stop it. It makes me do things I don't want to do, say things I don't want to say.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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Relationships can't be measured with a clock or a calendar, Never. It's about getting each other. You get me, and I get you. That's the only thing I give a shit about.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
There are only three kinds of kisses in this world: secret ones that nobody sees, the fake ones that everybody sees, and the real ones that only two people see. This one was one of those and I'll be damned, but it rocked my friggin' world.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
And a mistake made twice isn't really a mistake at all.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
The hardest hearts are forged in fire; the weakest bend under their will. And revenge β¦ is wicked sweet.
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
β
When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
I had a sudden and irrational fear that I was going to turn into Anastasia Steele and start spouting off things about my inner goddess and referring to my fucking cunt as down there.
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C.M. Stunich (Fuck Valentine's Day)
β
I take a step forward but Naomi stops me with a hand on my stomach. Like a lost, little puppy I obey. Good Lord, where did my balls go?
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there. Besides, reading a book gives me a goal. It's that sense of purpose that puts a temporary bandage over my uncertainty and lets me waste away the rest of the day without anymore negative thoughts.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
β
Sometimes pain is pretty, to the people who have too much of it,
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
He's my..." It takes me the longest moment in history to answer this question. "He's my soul mate.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
Just tell me you're mine, I'm yours, and you won't kiss, fuck or otherwise let any other man batter dip his corn dog with you.
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C.M. Stunich (Bad Day (Hard Rock Roots, #4))
β
Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Never Ross, I heart the fuck out of you.
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C.M. Stunich (Keeping Never (Tasting Never, #3))
β
No lies, remember? I'm dead fucking serious here. I am like, head over friggin' heels, butterflies and puppies, hearts and fucking kitty cats in love with you.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
(...) before they actually admit to the big 'L' word. Love or lust - what's the big, damn deal? You're going to Β fuck either way, right?
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies.
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C.M. Stunich
β
When you exist in the ugly, you learn to live in the beautiful.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
Nobody listens when bad girls cry.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
I pull my cigarette from my mouth and take a look around, meeting the eyes of my friends carefully,so they'll know how serious I am right now. First person to laugh gets punched.βI'm in love.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
I can tell you that she changed my life, and I think, somehow, I changed hers. We're good for each other, Never and me. Just two tortured souls tangled together for life. Just two, tortured fucking souls in love.
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C.M. Stunich (Keeping Never (Tasting Never, #3))
β
I'm going to fall in love with him. I'm going to be head over heels and my stomach is going to hurt every time he walks into a room. I'm going to worry about him whenever he isn't there, and there are going to be times where I'll hate him. Because that's what love is. It's a kaleidoscope of emotions, all sorts of different colors blending together into one.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
Ain't no way I'm letting her out of this now. Not after that confession. It was as epic as the fucking storm and ten times as unexpected.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
Enjoy the ride because sometimes that's all you have. Sometimes, on the other side there's nothing but a trash can a whole bunch of people there to watch you throw up in it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
I will always hear Tyson Monroe McCabe. Whether it's a whisper, a scream, no matter what Ty says, I will always hear him.
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C.M. Stunich (Keeping Never (Tasting Never, #3))
β
Once it becomes a secret, it's hard to let it out. If you don't keep it inside to begin with, it doesn't get the chance to fester and rot. So, honesty is my policy.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.Β
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
When you see another lonely traveler walking the same sad, strange path you almost fell off before β¦ it's only right to see if you can guide them down a different road.
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C.M. Stunich (Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1))
β
Your boyfriend's real fuckin' nice. What a cutie. I heart the fuck out of him. What a catch.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
Booksβeven erotic ones β¦ especially erotic onesβare simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's through that enhancement of the world that we can see both its beauty and its flaws.
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C.M. Stunich (Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1))
β
This baby let's me take my low E string from an E Note to a D and back in a flash without having to retune. It can cry like a baby and scream like a devil; it's got angel wings and horns both,and it'll kiss you at the same time it fucks you. Not many dudes can top that,right?
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
What they donβt know is that the hardest hearts are forged in fire. With their cruelty and their jokes and their laughter, theyβve forged me into something spectacular.
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
β
Your past doesn't have to dictate who you are, but it can help you discover who you're meant to be.
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C.M. Stunich (Broken Pasts)
β
I want you to choose me for me. I want you to say fuck Noah Scott and mean it. When you can do that, really do that, come tell me. It'll happen, I know it will.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
How can I save anybody when inside, I'm being drowned by my own demons? Swept away by my own sins. Haunted by ghosts and mistakes and what-ifs.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
Tyson McCabe, my bad boy, my tortured soul, my little piece of dark with bits of light that glimmer like stars.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
...don't worry about how or why or when or what. You've spent your whole fucking life worrying about those things and it hasn't worked out. Follow your fucking heart and let yourself be happy.
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C.M. Stunich (Broken Pasts)
β
Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.Β
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that.
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C.M. Stunich
β
Iβve never heard someone say something as inane as βthereβs a kettle in the cupboardβ and have it sound like βIβm going to fucking murder you.β Impressive, I must say.
β
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C.M. Stunich (Victory at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #5))
β
Some things break when you put too much pressure on them, but those shards they break into can be twice as deadly.
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C.M. Stunich (Anarchy at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #4))
β
Havoc. They create it. They revel in it. They dispense it.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
Music is the metaphysical representation of our shredded hearts, all of our pain and anger, our love and joy, ground up and blended together. It saves people, and it destroys them. If it's anything in between, it's not really music at all, just noise.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
When you fall in love, you disregard logic. Because logic and love are two sides of the same coin. Together, they make a beautiful sort of currency, but you can never look them both in the face at the same time. I like that. βHey,
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C.M. Stunich (Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1))
β
I was born with this horrible affliction that leaves me attracted to men. Why haven't they invented a cure for that shit yet? Check the facts. It's the world's deadliest disease. I kid you not.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but β¦ I don't want to just read about romance anymore, Lili
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C.M. Stunich (Roadie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #2))
β
We're one in the same, Ty McCabe and I, and he'll always, always get me. Even if nobody else does.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
It feels good to be protectedβeven if I know how to take care of myself.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
We might live in the darkness, but that doesn't mean we're not allowed to enjoy the moonlight
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C.M. Stunich (Chaos at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #2))
β
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here,β Oscar murmurs,
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C.M. Stunich (Chaos at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #2))
β
See, that's the thing with pain. Once it finds you and grabs hold, it doesn't let go easily. It's always there, a demon with reaching claws.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
Is that my life outside of these walls was already a living hell. This is just another level of Danteβs inferno, and Iβm not afraidβnot of any of you.
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
β
They used to be my tormentors, but now theyβre my dark angels.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
And no chick fucking either, unless we both agree to it, of course." Turner pauses and scowls. "Though I can't imagine sharing you with anyone. Makes me fucking sick to my stomach.
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C.M. Stunich (Bad Day (Hard Rock Roots, #4))
β
Do you know how hard it is to be offered the one thing you always wanted just after you've convinced yourself that you don't anymore? Just when you've accepted that you'll never have it? It's cruel. Worse than never being offered it at all.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
If I ever believe in something again, and it turns out to be false, then not only will my body crumble beneath me, but so will my soul. I'll disintegrate, disappear into the wind and blow away. I'll be nothing. I'll blank out and the energy of who I was will just go away, melt into the ground and come back as something unimportant, like a dandelion or a caterpillar. I can't find it in my heart to care.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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Your past is your foundation, and if it's crumbling then you've got nothing left to build on.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
β
I just exist for this woman.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...
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C.M. Stunich
β
We both like Marlboro Reds, both eat pastrami and Swiss, and both have holes in our hearts big enough to swallow us whole. What the fuck?
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
Every step closer to the grave is one step further away from this hell we call life.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
Men have selfish motivation, want, and desire tainting their vision; little girls have dreams, ambition, and honesty turning theirs crystal clear
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
You can't just turn someone's world upside down and then leave.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
He might be a bad boy, but even bad boys can be broken.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
β
The threat is over, erased with violence and tiny porcelain hands so used to abuse they can stand innocent no longer.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
Love doesn't mean shit in the real world. It opens you up inside, fucks your soul crazy hardcore, but outside, it's just a weakness to be exploited.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
Iβll tell you which demons to avoid.β She pauses and gives me another critical look. βMostly though, youβll want to stay away from the devils.
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
β
Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.
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C.M. Stunich (Needing Me, Wanting You (Triple M, #3))
β
Now I'm already trying to figure out how to get away from Brandon, so I can read. Why are guys in books so much less dickish than ones in real life? Cuter, too.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
Fare-fucking-well, Miss Alice.β He pauses before turning away, shiny shoes scuffing against the filthy stone floor beneath our feet. βTry not to die before we meet again?
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
This time, I'm not kissing the prince to become the princess, I'm tonguing the villain to guarantee the destruction of others.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
Virginity is an abstract patriarchal social construct that has zero validity and exists for the sole purpose of commoditizing young women but go on, Iβll wait.
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C.M. Stunich (Victory at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #5))
β
Falling in love is like catching an incurable disease. Yeah, maybe that doesnβt sounds so romantic, but itβs true. Itβs incurable and itβs contagious as shit. It makes you want to have babies and raise kittens, pet butterfly wings and sleep with your head on somebody elseβs chest. Loveβ¦ man, it fucks with everything you are and everything you want to be. I like it and hate it.
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
β
There's nothing more frightening than dead silence; I can't stand it. When it's quiet, that's when the bad memories and the awful thoughts ring loudest. I'd rather not hear their sinful soliloquies just now, thank you.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
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Iβll never be a nice guy, and Iβll never be a saint, but if youβre game to let me try, Iβll make a valiant change. If you could only love me for the asshole that I am, then I swear to God Iβd be the man you want to claim.
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C.M. Stunich (In the Arms of the Elite (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #4))
β
If you can think of your lover in six senses, then I'd say you're nailed. They've got themselves wrapped around your heart. And your cock. (...) Six senses? (...) Sight, sound, taste, scent, touch, and the other, that thing you can't figure out that means everything.Β
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
To the tortured souls whose blood is the heartbeat of the earth. May you find your happily Never after
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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I have to go and learn my fate.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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You can't get hurt if you're already standing in the flames.
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C.M. Stunich (Born Wrong (Hard Rock Roots, #5))
β
Hot fingertips trail along the back of my neck, and I jump, whirling around to find an identical looking boy with an EAT ME sign around his neck.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
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Iβm surrounded by my monsters now, but at least I hold the leash of some very pretty ones.
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C.M. Stunich (Chaos at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #2))
β
Some men sleep and dream. Some men have nightmares. Youβre a nightmare, Bernadette, a beautiful nightmare.
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C.M. Stunich (Chaos at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #2))
β
The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
β
I did what I had to do in that moment, and I'm proud of myself for it. I was hurting, yes, and maybe I overreacted, and but I can still feel, so there's hope for me. The one's who've forgotten how to feel, those are the ones who are lost.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
β
When you accept a person for who they are, you donβt choose bits and pieces. You accept every part of them, right down to the rotten bits. Because everybody wants somebody to love their rottenness.
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C.M. Stunich (Anarchy at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #4))
β
Lilith,β he says, and he sounds so boy next door, so apologetic, that I can hardly even believe he's breaking up with me. [...]
I told you - I told you - that guys like Copeland Park were the most dangerous. The nice ones, the sweet ones, the ones that promise that everything will be okay with a single look. They're the ones that fuck you over the hardest.
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C.M. Stunich (Roadie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #2))
β
Sometimes, when I'm reading a book, I get so into it that when I look up, I have to blink several times to remember where I am, who I am, what my life is really like. There have been so many times that I've wished I never did wake up, that I died in a dream of words and sentences and characters and romances.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass (Harem of Hearts, #3))
β
Milady, I'm very much interested." He grins, but there's a heat to it now that either I just missed before, or he did a damn good job hiding. "You're so β¦ very much everything I never knew I wanted. You hate money. You hate assholes. You don't take shit. Darling, let me make you a princess.
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C.M. Stunich (The Envy of Idols (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #3))
β
Are you in?" I roll my eyes and try to kiss him again, but he won't let me. I pinch his nipples, and all he does is wink and growl at me. "Say it."
"Fuck you"
"We'll get there, Naomi. Be patient. But first, you have to say it." I keep glaring, but I feel my body melting, my shields and my walls crashing down in flames. "Say you're mine, tell me that you're my girlfriend."
"You're my boyfriend," I say, and the words nearly kill me. "That's all you get for now. Best I can fucking do.
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C.M. Stunich (Bad Day (Hard Rock Roots, #4))
β
Some nightmares are so persistent as to become an unreal reality. They're so frequent and so jarring that even though the dreamer knows she dreams, she can't seem to wake herself up. And when those dreams are based in the awful friction of reality to begin with? Well, that just makes things that much worse because waking up β¦ you know there's no reprieve from the boogey man that hides beneath your bed. The monsters are real, and they've gotten inside your head.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
The past isn't something you run from; it's something you walk slowly past, taking pictures, making memories. You learn from the bad times and treasure the good ones, but you leave that view firmly entrenched in the rearview mirror. All I want to see out the windshield is my future.
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C.M. Stunich (Moxie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #3))
β
The world was wrecked and withering,
wrecked and full of fright:
The Alice did her best to take β¦
In the horrid sightsβ
But this was hard, because it was
The corruption of her life.
The moon was bathed in blood and hate,
It blotted out the sun
The kings had got no business there
Because their time was doneβ
'It's very rude of them,' she said,
'Slaughtering everyone!'
The blood was red as red could be,
The bones were dry as dry.
You could not see a star because
Gray clouds were in the sky:
No angels flying overheadβ
There were none left to fly.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
β
Say something, Bernadette,β Hael whispers, his voice husky with pleasure. βI want to hear your voice.β His request hits me like a brick to the chest, and for a moment, it's all I can do to sit there, feeling his hard length inside of me. My voice? Why? βShut the fuck up,β is all I can think to respond with, and Hael laughs, letting me push him back with a hand to the chest.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
β
Instead, when I pull it back, there's a man sitting on a red chaise lounge, leaning back and smiling wickedly at me. Around his neck, there's a tag that says DRINK ME. βOh, heeeell no,β I say, backing up suddenly, until my feet crunch over the shards of broken glass. Thank God I decided to wear combat boots instead of the awful heels my sister'd picked out for me. βWhat's the matter?β the boy asks, tilting his head to the side and letting the corner of his lip twist up in a smirk. βYou're not thirsty?
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))