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Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"
Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read."
"Doesn't mean I won't get more books." I smiled at is incredulous expression. "I haven't been able to read a lot lately, but I will, and then I won't be out of anything new to read.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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Taking pity on me, Carissa kept her voice low. “You were calling out for Daemon.”I dropped my face in my hands and moaned. “Oh, God.”
Lesa giggled. “It was kind of cute.”
A minute before the tardy bell rang, I felt an all-too-familiar warmth on my neck and glanced up. Daemon swaggered into class. Textbook-less as usual. He had a notebook, but I don’t think he ever wrote anything in it. I was beginning to suspect our math teacher was an alien, because how else would Daemon get away with not doing a damn thing in class? He passed by without so much as a look.
I twisted around in my chair. “I need to talk to you.”
He slid into his desk chair. “Okay.”
“In private,” I whispered.
His expression didn’t change as he leaned back in his chair. “Meet me in the library at lunch. No one really goes in there. You know, with all those books and stuff.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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Dedicated to book lovers and book bloggers everywhere, those large and small.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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Nah, books were more important than the Arum.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover!
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Onyx
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Little boys jump, but they do not know where. Into the mouth of the demon lair. Hold still and you will see, in his hand is the key. Fire and brimstone. Brimstone and fire. Your ally is clever. a thief and a liar. All is not lost. You can turn it around. But, for a moment...all will be well.....peaceful and sound." Alice.
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Kathy Cyr (Max Hamby and the Onyx Eyes (Max Hamby #3))
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People who still read books were a rare breed—and becoming more rare all the time. God Bless the readers of the world.
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Richard Fenton (Onyx Webb: Book Ten: Episodes 29, 30, 31 & 32)
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I invited Onyx to be my plus one. Of course she was all in when I added that Grandma A had a massive swimming pool and was within a short driving distance to a two-story bookstore.
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K.R. Grace (The Phoenix (Daughters of Destiny #4))
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But no matter how I tried to get into the book I was reading, it wasn’t working. Half of it was the book. It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or another. Girl still loves boy. Boy finally admits love. Who was I kidding? I sort of loved all that angst.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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When Vince came into the room, necklace of onyx draped over his throat, and one attached to his arm like a leash, his eyes changed at the sight of her. He turned to Bellamy. “But where’s Adeline?”
“We sent her home,” Malik said.
“Then who—”
“Me,” Charlie said. “If you can make a stupid decision, then I can make one too.”
He shook his head. “This is supposed to be a punishment.”
“Oh, I know,” she said. “You’re going to be stuck in my head, with all my secrets. Even I don’t know all my secrets. It’s going to be awful.”
He appeared to be seriously considering strangling her. “Char.”
“She volunteered,” Vicereine said. “And confessed to quite a few crimes just to convince us.”
The look he gave her was scathing. “Did she?”
“I’ll need your feet to be bare,” Vicereine said, all business now.
Charlie reached down to take off her boots. They were already untied, the laces loose from kicking them off in the tower.
Vince appeared to be belatedly wondering if he could break free of the onyx chains and escape. She saw him pull against the shining loop over his wrist. It must have held, because his expression set into grim lines. “You don’t know what I’ll be like, after. No one does,” he said under his breath.
“You’ll still be you,” Charlie whispered back.
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Holly Black (Book of Night (Book of Night, #1))
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Todd closed his eyes, then, and found himself picturing the other boy involuntarily—surprising himself with the intrusiveness of the thought. It was that fucking smile: there was something about the way the corners of Zack’s eyes had crinkled—the sincerity of it. Todd had felt that smile like it hurt. That smile was sparks. That smile was fireworks. That smile sizzled across the dark landscape of his soul, racing toward the shadows and lighting them up in brief eruptions of pure electric intensity, banishing the corruption in moments of flickering respite. Todd felt them coursing through him like thousands of tiny explosions. Like a squadron of gemstones erupting all at once into an armageddon of prismatic color. Like all that energy was going to carry him to some unknown destination where he could be weightless: wrapped in all its warmth and light and certainty forever and ever. And while he might not know where that place was he desperately needed to go there. To be there, always. Even if the process consumed him entirely. Even if it unmade him. Todd felt as though a sun erupted to life inside of him, then. He felt awake. Alive. And for the first time in so very long he felt the fullness of warmth filling him to the very boundaries of every expanse of himself—defiantly radiating against the cold and dark and shadow that had made it’s home across so much of him for so much of his life. And then—just like that—just as he’d arrived in Todd’s life: Zack was gone. And there was an emptiness that followed in the vacuum of the next few moments. A dark. And Todd felt it—deeply—as all those fireworks and all those sparks and all that color that had momentarily lit up so brilliantly across the insides of him lost the gravity that had once possessed it. The sparkle. And then it was just him there: Todd. Alone. But not entirely. Not ever. Because there was always that other thing. The shadowy thing. The one that he did his very best not to think about at all. It lived out along the wildest fringes of his mind—dancing along the tattered edges of the real—onyx eyes glittering, always. And it was hungry, too.
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Nando Gray (Zack and Todd Versus the Missing Member (The Adventures of Zack and Todd Book 1))
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in Chapter 32, Moses returned to Mount Sinai. This time God wrote the Commandments on two stone tablets and gave Moses specific instructions on how to build a special chest, called an ark, in which to carry them. He also gave Moses instructions on how to make other sacred objects, such as a bejeweled gold breastplate, two onyx balls inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes, and a golden crown.
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Hunt Kingsbury (The Moses Riddle (Thomas McAllister 'Treasure Hunter' Adventure Book 1))
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On that ephod is a ‘breastplate of righteousness’ that contains twelve different gems. Jasper, sapphire, emerald, onyx, and others.” “Emerald is my favorite,” said Achsah. She loved its bright green glow. Caleb continued, “The precious stones represent Yahweh’s heavenly city as well as the twelve tribes of Israel.” “But that breastplate is also called the ‘breastplate of judgment’ because it contains a pocket over the heart of the high priest,
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Brian Godawa (Joshua Valiant (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 5))
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It seems like everyone’s life has been or will be connected to darkness of some kind. Sometimes it’s a deep shade of pure onyx — a complete and total absence of light. Other times it has more grey undertones, with sunshine begging to come out from behind storm clouds. Sometimes there are people who go through the worst of the worst and come out the other side determined to make themselves better because of their traumas. Some come out the other side broken, beaten down, bloody, and can barely manage to pick themselves back up again.
Sometimes just pulling yourself off the dirty ground is enough of a win. It’s enough to tell those storm clouds to suck your fucking dick, that they won’t get the best of you. Other times, it’s okay to lie there in a pool of blood and let the icy rain wash it all away, to take the beating that the storm gives you until you can manage to get up and limp through the next thunderstorm.
Yet, there are days when your best just isn’t enough to make it through the storm.
— Bo Reid, A Reaper Christmas
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Bo Reid (A Reaper Christmas: A Reaper Series Novella (The Reapers Book 6))
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It seems like everyone’s life has been or will be connected to darkness of some kind. Sometimes it’s a deep shade of pure onyx — a complete and total absence of light. Other times it has more grey undertones, with sunshine begging to come out from behind storm clouds. Sometimes there are people who go through the worst of the worst and come out the other side determined to make themselves better because of their traumas. Some come out the other side broken, beaten down, bloody, and can barely manage to pick themselves back up again.
Sometimes just pulling yourself off the dirty ground is enough of a win. It’s enough to tell those storm clouds to suck your fucking dick, that they won’t get the best of you. Other times, it’s okay to lie there in a pool of blood and let the icy rain wash it all away, to take the beating that the storm gives you until you can manage to get up and limp through the next thunderstorm.
Yet, there are days when your best just isn’t enough to make it through the storm.
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Bo Reid (A Reaper Christmas: A Reaper Series Novella (The Reapers Book 6))
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Bellamy had become fascinated by all the different types of semi-precious stones the jewelers worked with - agate, quartz, rose quartz, onyx, obsidian, jade, jasper, red jasper, tiger’s
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KuroKoneko Kamen (Handsome and the Yeti (Genderbent Fairytales Collection, Book 1) (Twisted Fairytales Collection))
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We helped to move Cory a certain distance on her journey. Each leg will take someone different so she doesn’t grow too dependent upon any one person. She had to go to Earth. That was her time to find her daughters. As Terry and Char had to go to Onyx Station. As Marcie and Kaeden had to go wherever they needed to go. We have our own journeys to follow, but our paths are inextricably linked. We travel together when we can, alone when we must, but we never forget how far we’ve come.
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Craig Martelle (The Bad Company Complete Series Omnibus: Books 1 - 7)
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But no matter how I tried to get into the book I was reading, it wasn’t working. Half of it was the book. It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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A large main room, with a small, shut door in the back. Floor-to-ceiling shelves lined the walls, crammed with bric-a-brac; books, shells, dolls, herbs, pottery, shoes, crystals, more books, jewels... From the ceiling and wood rafters hung all manner of chains, dead birds, dresses, ribbons, gnarled bits of wood, strands of pearls...
A junk shop- of some immortal horder.
And that hoarder...
In the gloom of the cottage, there sat a large spinning wheel, cracked and dulled with age.
And before that ancient spinning wheel, her back to me, sat the Weaver.
Her thick hair was of richest onyx, tumbling down to her slender waist as she worked the wheel, snow-white hands feeding and pulling the thread around a thorn-sharp spindle.
She looked young- her grey gown simple but elegant, sparkling faintly in the dim forest light through the windows as she sang in a voice of glittering gold.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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I knelt down slowly to inspect the parcel’s contents, and my mouth fell open like a book.
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Kate Golden (A Dawn of Onyx (The Sacred Stones, #1))
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Cassilda:
(speaking to herself)
We strain our ears for the sound of love, but must all mothers bear the horror of seeing their Children grow from wonderful possibility to grim reality?
Stranger:
(Stands mutely in the shadows, his hands folding across his chest)
Cassilda: If only we could stay a moment behind the veil of time, and live in that moment of indecision.
Stranger:
(Whispers so Cassilda cannot hear)
Existence is decision.
(...)
[Te Child appears before the closed curtain]
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Te Child: I am not the Prologue, nor the Afterword; call me the Prototaph. My role is this: to tell you it is now too late to close the book or quit the theatre. You already thought you should have done so earlier, but you stayed. How harmless it all is! No definite principles are involved, no doctrines promulgated in these pristine pages, no convictions outraged…but the blow has fallen, and now it is too late. And shall I tell you where the sin lies? It is yours. You listened to us; and all the say you stay to see the Sign. Now you are ours, or, since the runes also run backwards, we are yours…forever.
(...)
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
(...)
[As the gong continues to strike, everyone begins to unmask. There are murmurs and gestures of surprise, real or polite, as identities are recognized or revealed. Ten there is a wave of laugher. The music becomes louder and increases in tempo.]
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Camilla: Indeed, it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: No mask? No mask!
Stranger: I, I am the Pallid Mask itself. I, I am the Phantom of Truth. I came from Alar. My star is Aldebaran. Truth is our invention; it is our weapon of war. And see–by this sign we have conquered, and the siege of good and evil is ended…
§ [On the horizon, the towers of Carcosa begin to glow]
Noatalba: (Pointing) Look, look! Carcosa, Carcosa is on fire!
(...)
The King: Te Phantom of ruth shall be laid. Te scalloped tattersof Te King must hide Haita forever. As for thee, Yhtill–
All: No! No, no!
Te King: And as for thee, we tell you this; it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god.
(...)
Te Stranger falls, and everyone else sinks slowly to the ground after him. Te King can now be seen, although only faintly. He stands in state upon the balcony. He has no face, and is twice as tall as a man. He wears painted shows under his tattered, fantastically colored robes, and a streamer of silk appears to fall from the pointed tip of his hood. Behind his back he holds inverted a torch with a turned and jeweled shaft, which emits smoke, but no light. At times he appears to be winged; at others, haloed. These details are for the costumier;
at no point should Te King be sufficiently visible to make themall out. Behind him, Carcosa and the Lake of Hali have vanished. Instead, there appears at his back a huge sculptured shield, in shape suggesting a labrys of onyx, upon which the Yellow Sign is chased in gold. Te rest of the stage darkens gradually, until, at the end, it is lit only by the decomposed body of the Stranger, phosphorescing bluely.]
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Talbot Estus
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Bryce whipped her head around to look at the Gate as Danika’s voice sounded again. “Light it up, Bryce.” The onyx stone of the Bone Quarter glowed like a dark star.
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Sarah J. Maas (Crescent City Ebook Bundle: A 2-book bundle)
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Die?" Kurt laughed. "Didn't you know? Spartans never die.
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Eric Nylund (HALO: Ghosts of Onyx: HALO, Book 4)
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Time is a strange thing, Jitterbug. On one hand, time is free, yet on the other, it’s priceless. You never really own it, but you can do anything you want with it. You’re not allowed to save any of it up, but you can spend it. And once you’ve lost it, you ain’t never gonna get it back. Of all the gifts on God’s green earth, time is the thing we long for the most, yet—somehow or other—it always ends up being the thing we use the worst.
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Richard Fenton (Onyx Webb: Book Ten: Episodes 29, 30, 31 & 32)
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As long as you have a beating heart, it's never too late. But you do need to get on with it [. . .] every second you squander is an affront to an unforgiving universe.
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Andrea Waltz (Onyx Webb: Book Six: Episodes 16, 17, 18)
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Hi I love your Onyx series books, will we have Xavier's book?If yes, do you have any predictions?
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Samantha Whiskey
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Let me see,” Opal said.
She quickly slurped up the rest of her lunch and then
took the collar. She examined it very closely. Sure enough,
she could see bits of evergreen fur pinched along the buckle strap. As she looked closer, she noticed something else. Several pieces of black onyx were sewn into the back of the collar, and they started glowing.
“Well look at that,” Jack said. “Somebody’s put a spider in this biscuit.
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Mark Caldwell Jones (Opal Summerfield and The Battle of Fallmoon Gap (Book 1))
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But no matter how I tried to get into the book I was reading, it wasn’t working. Half of it was the book. It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or another. Girl still loves boy. Boy finally admits love. Who
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Onyx (Lux, #2))
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Should you one day discover you have both light and darkness inside you, do not despair ... we all do. What matters is which you choose to act on.” The 27 Immutable Matters of Life & Death
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Richard Fenton (Onyx Webb: Book One: Episodes 1, 2, & 3)
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Much easier to make me the villain in a story missing so many pages
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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Envy is the poison we feed ourselves.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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It was the least brave quality - to be sensitive and fearful and full of tears.
But I let them flow freely now.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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There is no redemption," he continued, pulling his hand from mine. "Only revenge."
"Sound like a very lonely way to live."
"Yes." He said it like he deserved such an existence.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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Had I known what was out there, I might never have given myself the chance to be brave.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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She is my trouble. Mine.” I turn my head back to see Onyx waiting in the door of the tent, light pouring around him. His eyes are like black fire, and tension radiates off every inch of him. He snarls at me. “Don’t you dare do it, Gwen!” I wink right as I press my hand straight onto the page.
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G. Bailey (Starlight Mates (The Nexus Series Book 1))
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There’s always something to fear. That’s the price of doing anything worth doing.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)
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Don't even start. I wouldn't be dealing with any of this if it wasn't for you."
Only a warning danced in his eyes. "Are you finding that denial to be working very well for you, bird?"
"Hey, don't talk to her like that."
Kane turned to Fedrik, his voice terribly calm. "I will end you.
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Kate Golden (The Sacred Stones Series 3 Books Set – A Dawn of Onyx, A Promise of Peridot, and A Reign of Rose)