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I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he'd been stabbed, slowly lifted his hand from his chest and laid it on the tumbled sheets between them, fingers half-curled into his palm. He was still regarding the ceiling with a fixed glare. "Because you trust them not to hurt you?" Mae asked tentatively. "No," Nick said, his voice harsh. "Because I'd let them hurt me.

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Hurt, Hands, Voice

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Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied away, and Nick gave Jamie a push in the chest that was clearly intended to right him, but that nearly had him toppling over backward. Balance eventually restored to them all, Jamie gave Nick an approving look. "You are my friend," he told him. "Yeah, I am," said Nick. "But these stairs," Jamie said sadly. "They are not my friends.

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Fall, Balance, Looks

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Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin.

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Black And White, Mirrors, Wings

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I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.

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Sorry, Hands, Saving

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I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did Jamie. "What?" "Demons don't touch anyone without a reason," Nick went on, his eyes shut again. "You can imagine what kind of reasons we usually have. I don't like--not anyone--I didn't mean anything by it." "Oh," said Jamie. "Oh, that's okay! That's fine. I understand. I am filled to the brim with understanding and, and acceptance! I'm very Zen like that.

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Mean, Eye, Acceptance

Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.

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Kissing, Past, Tongue

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Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

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Shapes, Letters, Daggers

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

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Mind, Reassurance, Wave

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.16, Random House Books for Young Readers

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Nick scowled out the window. "I have friends in Exeter already. I have-those people, you know, they hang around outside the bike sheds, they're always hassling Jamie." "Those are some awesome dudes," Jamie muttered. "Don't let them get away.

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People, Window, Jamie

Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

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Rocks, Fancy, Honey

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

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Long, Lasts, Judgmental

Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.

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Crazy, Eye, Thinking

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

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Daughter, Dad, Nice

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.

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Real, Two, Feet

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. “You are not.” “Well, I have floozy ambitions.

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Ambition, Calling, Way

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

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Hurt, Real, Curves

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.74, Random House Books for Young Readers

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I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

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Book, Want

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?

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Sorry, Rivers, Cry

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

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Likes, Mets, Better Than You

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

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Rain, Darkness, Four

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.

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Eye, People, Bedroom

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.

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Cost, Pay, Said

Sarah Rees Brennan (2011). “Demon's Surrender”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks." "I have a system where when I stop, I lean casually against something," Jared told her. "It makes people think I'm a bad boy. Or possibly that I have a bad back.

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Boys, Thinking, Laughing

Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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Maybe he likes the look of Mae," Nick drawled. "Don't be ridiculous." Nick raised his eyebrows. "Does he like the look of Jamie?

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Eyebrows, Doe, Looks

Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another girl who was alive. It's creepy. I know that." He was staring off into space, as if at some private nightmare. "Nothing matters in comparison. Nobody is real but her. So it feels sometimes as if nothing else matters at all, including other people. She wouldn't like that. Other people SHOULD matter." *** So he loved Kami.

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Girl, Real, Book

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