Even if I believed I was doing good- for who I am to presume what is good for others?
Love is a conquest! Love is war!
I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know.
Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.
But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.
But was the woman's death the tragedy, or her life?
It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.
Do you think she is?" Her voice trembled. Her heart throbbed as she waited for him to answer. "You think they've killed her?"Every moment wrapped around Scarlet's neck, strangling her, until the only possiblbe word from Wolf's mouth had to be yes. Yes, she was dead. Yes, she was gone. They'd murdered her. These monsters had murdered her.Scarlet pressed her palms into the crate, trying to push through the plastic. "Say it.""No," he murmured, shoulder sinking, "No, I don't think they've killed her. Not yet."Scarlet shivered with relief. She covered her face with both hands, dizzy with the hurricane of emotions. "Thank the stars," she whispered. "Thank you.
And they all lived happily to the end of their days.