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The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.
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Debra Moffitt (Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery)
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Boom, baby. How you like me now?β Beckett wanted to stroke her hair, but it was a knotty, bloody mess. He felt proud.
She laughed. βPretty damn good, Iβll give you that.β
βI love your laugh. I need more of it.β He pulled her closer and kissed her forehead.
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Debra Anastasia (Return to Poughkeepsie (Poughkeepsie Brotherhood, #2))
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He kept messing with her, trying to get her to sleep with him, but Eve had yet to do anything but tease him. In a world full of whores and junkies, not getting laid was a huge turn-on.
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Debra Anastasia (Poughkeepsie (Poughkeepsie Brotherhood, #1))
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We spent some time in a school for troubled kids together a long time ago. My first day was his 1,865th. He refused to let any of the other kids mess with me. I never figured out why. But I never forgot either. He was my only friend then, and was still the only person I trusted. He was just immense. Six foot eight of dark handsome. He read a room like a scholar and would give me the lowdown in a husky whisper.
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Debra Anastasia (Mercy (Mercy #1))
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Kyle looked back at his game, the rest of the lobby instantly forgotten. He was moving some kind of soldier through a futuristic battlefield. Marcus chuckled. βKid plays that thing day and night. Iβd say heβs doing it to escape reality, but frankly, his mom says he was like that before this mess.β βKyle is Debraβs kid,β Karen explained. βYou canβt blame the boy. Everyone has to cope in their own way.β βThereβs enough electricity from the solar panels to waste on games?β Will asked.
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Sam Sisavath (The Gates of Byzantium (Purge of Babylon, #2))
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This is how we thank assholes for messing with Poughkeepsie.
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Debra Anastasia (Saving Poughkeepsie (Poughkeepsie Brotherhood, #3))
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Everything had been coming together, until that night with Zev and Debra's stupid stunt. I clung to her promise that everything would be okay, forgetting that she was the one who'd gotten me into this mess in the first place. Or maybe, as usual, it was me.
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Daisy Alpert Florin (My Last Innocent Year)
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I need you, Cockroach. I need you, but you pull the breath from my lungs and leave me a disordered mess. And now that Iβve felt the terrifying experience of loving you, I would never have it any other way. I could never go back to my life before you. And none of this is worth anything without you, either. Iβd carry on, because I feel like I owe it to the humans and the angels to shoulder my responsibility, but without you I would have no joy in my life. Without you, I would rot. I would decay and die.
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Debra Dunbar (Queen of the Damned (Imp #9))