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• “Alright. I'm over on the dark side. You'd better have the cookies I've been promised.”

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• “This was another thing Vale’s mother never understood: Vale was aro-ace, both aromantic and asexual. She’d told her parents she just wasn’t interested in dating any number of times… But they never seemed to get it. To them, Vale’s sexuality was a ‘phase’ that they were certain she would one day outgrow. Their obliviousness was a raw spot for Vale.”

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• “Sometimes,” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.”

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• “It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade.”

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• “You’re an old soul, Ava...” he’d begun, his voice tired.
  “God, Dad... Let’s not do this now, please...”
  “It’s true. You are. But that means you have to choose your life… not just react to it.”

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• “Don’t cut too deep in your first prints.”
  “But what if we do dig too deep?” a girl in the front asked. “What happens then?”
  Giulia reached out to the side, pulling up a print stained with inky shadows, but within its depths, the faint outlines of something else. An echo of what it had been still visible in the second plate.
  “Cut too deep,” she said, “and your image will keep coming back again and again, no matter how many times you rework it.”

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• “She lifted her head in surprise, following his line of sight above the tree line. Beyond the distant peaks, a green and blue symphony of lights had begun. It rippled and shimmered like sunshine on water, leaving Rich blinking back tears. He'd read something about this but had never seen it before.
  “It's the aurora borealis,” Lou said quietly. “Northern lights.”

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• “Sometimes you have to wait out the night,” she said quietly “Morning always comes.”

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• “Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
  “It's up to you to make your happy ending.”
  Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.”

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• “Fries and fortune... The perfect combination.”

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• “What's the point?” her father muttered brokenly the day of the funeral. In the last months his shoulders had curled like an autumn leaf.
  “The point is that we're not alive unless we also die,” Louise said.”

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• “The town was as barren as an empty movie set, the only movement from deer that wandered the boulevards. His eyes skimmed silent streets as he searched for the bed and breakfast. A half-grown fawn, grazing near the side of the road, lifted its head and hurried off to its mother.”

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• “She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.”

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• “The teens had gathered in an open clearing. Behind them, the banded lines of Avion Ridge formed a ragged edge between sky and ground, a rock wall looming above the trees. Ash shivered. The hikers stood in shadow here, the warmth of the day gone.”

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• “No use provoking the die-hard fans if you didn’t have to.”

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• “It was Red Rock Canyon. One of the most beautiful places in Waterton... in the Rockies, for that matter. And it was there, waiting for him to find it. As long as he was willing to look for it.”

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• “With a calmness born from exhaustion and terror, the shaking of his body stilled, his heart slowing. The cougars were burnished gold in the moonlight, their shapes bright against the damp grey cliff. The two cubs moved across the ragged edge of the rocky outcrop, their mother a stone's throw below. Rich gasped as the female in front jumped to a lower ledge, balancing on the small precipice. She watched him warily, her head moving back and forth as if trying to ascertain what he was, and whether he was worth the bother.”

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• “Lou stood at the kitchen sink, her eyes unfocused on her hazy reflection in the window. Outside the sky was fading from steely blue to indigo. The mountain range beyond was a solid sheet of black, cut out by a child's sloppy scissors.”

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• “It's going to happen whether you like it or not,” he said quietly.
  The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”
  “Change,” Rich said. “It's inevitable.”

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• “Thursday afternoon, the dark clouds closed in, and by Friday morning a heavy rain was falling. The mountain peaks were hazy sentinels, disappearing into misty fog that clung to the valley.”

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• “If you're trying to figure out why something's not working,” Old Lou had explained, “just focus on the things that do work. Move through those things first and eventually you'll find the one part that's stuck.”

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• “He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.
  That, or it broke them.”

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• “That, my dear Liv, was confidence. Talk to someone. Make jokes with them. Seem interested in what they are saying even if they're dull as mud.” He shrugged. “Anyone... anyone at all, can be glamoured if you know how.”

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• “Cosplay. Why you just said the magic word!”

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• “Breathtaking.
  That was the word, Liv decided, which had convinced her to wear the ludicrous outfit, because no one - not the one, solitary boyfriend she'd had during high school, or the leering frat boys she avoided at college parties - had ever spoken to her with such reverence. And with Xander beaming down at her, she did feel beautiful.”

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