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Elm
THE INVITATION
I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Butterfly.
There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.
She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" 
It’s sarcasm, Josh.”
This is your last chance to do the right thing.'
It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
For God’s sake. Don’t do that.” 
It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant 
Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
DADDY
Girl Without Hands
I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, t... 
You should read something else."
How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea... 
Do you love him?” 
Your daughter is ugly.
Were you there?”
So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
The Blue Bird
You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some ... 
There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A Woman's Question
All right, then,” she snapped, “do as you please! Perhaps afterward we could manage a coherent d... 
She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
Oh, look, the lights are so pretty,” I said dreamily, having just noticed
Clay, did you ever love me?"
My mother tells me
My phone pinged. It was a text from Cookie.
As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ... 
If You Forget Me
I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and si... 
Now he felt temper snapping at the nerves. “If you can’t be comfortable in the house while I’m... 
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... 
Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
The Journey
Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long day
You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It... 
You are real," she said to herself.
My featherbed is deep and soft,
oxygen 
I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But... 
Show me your memories of the kiss.” I close my eyes. The heat creeps up my cheeks, which is silly ... 
One day you finally knew
Wow, hi,’ Eight says, and when he speaks it’s with his own voice.
The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane
Every morning the maple leaves.
I was sitting in my lab, my hand spread open on the table, while the skull examined my palm.
Spilling a Secret 
DON'T SAY, DO
O, weary angels, 
I’m not your boyfriend!” I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body.
On building homes for fallen angels:
Tonight I Can Write
Devereaux is going with our pitch.”
and you invented me
I want to see you.
Nina Zenik, as soon as I figure out where you've put my knives, we're going to have words."
The children came to a perfume shop. In the show window was a large jar of freckle salve, and beside... 
To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
They speak very well of you".
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was cons... 
He might come in useful.'
A smart model is a good model. 
When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them? 
Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn. 
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. 
I'm not stubborn. My way is just better. 
I know this woman.”
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really car... 
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more... 
I don't crave Hollywood. 
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch. 
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. 
Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutal... 
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous ... 