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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 2:46 am |
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"Ha' past six I had her doin' tricks Lay me down, Roll me over, Do it again
Croft stared at the mountainThe inviolate elephant brooding over the jungle and the paltry hills It was pure and remoteIn the late afternoon sunlight it was velvet green and rock blue and the brown of light earth, made of another material than the fetid jungle before it The old torment burned in him againA stream of wordless impulses beat in his throat and he had again the familiar and inexplicable tension the mountain always furnished him He had failed, and it hurt him vitallyHis frustration was loose againHe would never have another opportunity to climb itAnd yet he was wondering if he could have succeededOnce more he was feeling the anxiety and terror the mountain had roused on the rock stairwayIf he had gone alone, the fatigue of the other men would not have slowed him but he would not have had their company, and he realized suddenly that he could not have gone without themThe empty hills would have eroded any man's courage
Ha' past seven She thought she was in heaven
In a few hours they would be back, pitching their pup tents in the darkness, getting a canteen cup of hot coffee, perhapsAnd tomorrow the endless routine of harsh eventless days would begin once moreAlready the patrol was unfamiliar, unbelievable, and yet the bivouac before them also was unrealIn transit everything in the Army was unrealThey sang to make a little noiseroll me over And do it again
Croft kept looking at the mountainHe had lost it, had missed some tantalizing revelation of himself Of himself and much mor | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 2:46 am |
@@@@@"It was not in the tender heart of their @@@@@"It was not in the tender heart of their commander to injure the frail spinster woman who lay ill inside Scarlett laughed aloud"Frail spinster," indeed! Miss Julia must have scared the pants off him! The other passengers looked at her curiously, but Scarlett was unaware of their scrutinyThe Landing would be next Yes, there was the phosphate mineSo much bigger! There were five barges being loadedShe searched under the wide-brimmed hat of the man on the dockIt was that white-trash soldier-she couldn't remember his name, something like Hawkins-no matter, around that bend, past that big live oak The angle of the sunlight sculpted the great grass terraces of Dunmore Landing into green velvet giant steps and scattered sequins on the butterfly lakes beside the riverScarlett's involuntary cry was lost in the exclamations of the Yankees crowded around her along the railAt the top of the terraces the scorched chimneys were tall sentinels against the painfully bright blue sky; an alligator was sunning itself on the grass between the lakesDunmore Landing was like its owner: cultivated, damaged, dangerousThe shutters were closed on the wing that remained, the place that Rhett used for his office and hishomeHer eyes darted avidly from spot to spot, comparing her memory to what she sawMuch more of the garden was cleared and everything looked as if it was thrivingSome building was going up behind the house; she could smell raw lumber, see the top of a roofThe shutters of the house were fixed, or maybe newThey didn't sag at all, and they glistened with green paintHe'd done a lot of work over the fall and winterScarlett tried to look awayShe didn't want to see the newly cleared gardensAnne loves those flowers as much as Rhett doesAnd the fixed-up shutters must mean a fixed-up house where the two of them live togetherDoes Rhett fix breakfast for Anne? "Are you all right, miss?" Scarlett pushed past the concerned stranger"I'll go over there, deeper in the shad | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 2:46 am |
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quilted bag chanel,replica tiffany jewelry,louis... quilted bag chanel,replica tiffany jewelry,louis vuitton denim,rolex ladies watch,fake louis vuitton bags@@@@@ Wireman tipped them a smiling salute, then turned back to me"How deep is it out here? Do you know? That little orange flag suggests you do "Well, I'll tell youI did a little research on Lake Phalen - probably overdue, since Pam and I have owned the place on Aster Lane going on twenty-five yearsThe average depth is ninety-one feetexcept out here, where quilted bag chanel there's a fissure Wireman relaxed and pushed his cap back a little from his browWireman thinks you're still el zorro - still the fox "Maybe sí, maybe no, but there's three hundred and eighty feet of water under that little orange flag Three hundred and eighty at leastA hell of a lot better than a twelve-foot cistern thumbed into a coral splinter on the edge replica tiffany jewelry of the Gulf of Mexico "You look well, Wireman"That Gulfstream's the way to flyNo standing in line at security, no one pawing through your carry-on to make sure you didn't turn your little shitass can of Foamy into a bombAnd for once in my life I managed to fly north without a stop at fucking Atlantaalthough I could have afforded it myself, it looks louis vuitton denim like "You settled with Elizabeth's relatives, I take it?" "YepOffered them the house and the north end of the Key in exchange for the cash and securitiesThey thought that was a hell of a deal, and I could see their lawyers thinking, 'Wireman is a lawyer, and today he has a fool for a client'" "Guess I ain't the only zorro in this boat "I'll end up with over rolex ladies watch eighty million bucks in liquid assetsPlus various keepsakes from the houseIncluding Miss Eastlake's Sweet Owen cookie-tinThink she was trying to tell me something with that, 'chacho?" I thought of Elizabeth popping various china figures into the tin and then insisting Wireman 1111 throw it in the goldfish pondOf course she had been trying to tell him fake louis vuitton bags someth | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
omega seamaster gmt,fake prada,gucci g... omega seamaster gmt,fake prada,gucci g watch,louis vuitton vernis,bag dolce gabbana@@@@@Grant should not contrive better! And round their enormous great wide table, too, which fills up the room so dreadfully! Had the doctor been contented to take my dining-table when I came away, as anybody in their senses would have done, instead of having that absurd new one of his own, which is wider, literally wider than the dinnertable here, how infinitely better it would have been! and how much more he would have been respected! for people are never respected when they step out of their proper sphere Five—only five to be sitting round that tableHowever, you will have dinner enough on it for ten, I dare sayNorris fetched breath, and went on again “The nonsense and folly of people’s stepping out of omega seamaster gmt their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint, Fanny, now that you are going into company without any of us; and I do beseech and entreat you not to be putting yourself forward, and talking and giving your opinion as if you were one of your cousins—as if you were dear Mrs That will never do, believe meRemember, wherever you are, you must be the lowest and last; and though Miss Crawford is in a manner at home at the Parsonage, you are not to be taking place of her And as to coming away at night, you are to stay just as long as Edmund chusesLeave him to settle that “Yes, ma’am, I should not think of anything else “And if it should rain, which I think fake prada exceedingly likely, for I never saw it more threatening for a wet evening in my life, you must manage as well as you can, and not be expecting the carriage to be sent for 192 Mansfield Park youI certainly do not go home to-night, and, therefore, the carriage will not be out on my account; so you must make up your mind to what may happen, and take your things accordingly Her niece thought it perfectly reasonableShe rated her own claims to comfort as low even as MrsNorris could; and when Sir Thomas soon afterwards, just opening the door, said, “Fanny, at what time would you have the carriage come round?” she felt a degree of astonishment which made it impossible for her to speak “My dear Sir Thomas!” gucci g watch cried MrsNorris, red with anger, “Fanny can walk “Walk!” repeated Sir Thomas, in a tone of most unanswerable dignity, and coming farther into the room“My niece walk to a dinner engagement at this time of the year! Will twenty minutes after four suit you?” “Yes, sir,” was Fanny’s humble answer, given with the feelings almost of a criminal towards MrsNorris; and not bearing to remain with her in what might seem a state of triumph, she followed her uncle out of the room, having staid behind him only long enough to hear these words spoken in angry agitation— “Quite unnecessary! a great deal too kind! But Edmund goes; true, it is upon Edmund’s accountI observed he was hoarse on Thursday night But this louis vuitton vernis could not impose on FannyShe felt that the carriage was for herself, and herself alone: and her uncle’s consideration of her, coming immediately after such representations from her aunt, cost her some tears of gratitude when she was alone The coachman drove round to a minute; another minute brought down the gentleman; and as the lady had, with a most scrupulous fear of being late, been many minutes seated in the drawing-room, Sir Thomas saw them off in as good time as his own correctly punctual habits required “Now I must look at you, Fanny,” said Edmund, with the kind smile of an affectionate brother, “and tell you how I like you; and as well as I can judge by this light, you look very nicely bag dolce gabbana indeed | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 2:44 am |
Gucci Indy Bag,omega seamaster watch,tiffany... Gucci Indy Bag,omega seamaster watch,tiffany replica jewelry,replica prada,gucci gucci@@@@@I think I just mentioned itWhat’s the relevance here?” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 34 “Medusa,” said Webb quietly“I want to use Medusa “Now you’re out of your mind,” responded Conklin, no louder than David“That name is as offlimits as you are—let’s be honest, a hell of a lot more so “There were rumors, Alex, stories all over Southeast Asia that floated up the China Sea to Kowloon and Hong Kong, where most of those bastards ran with their moneyMedusa wasn’t exactly the secret evil you seem to think it was “Rumors, Gucci Indy Bag yes, and stories, of course,” interrupted the retired intelligence officer“Which of those animals didn’t put a gun or a knife to the heads of a dozen or two dozen or two hundred marks during their so-called ‘tours’? Ninety percent were killers and thieves, the original death squadsPeter Holland said that when he was a SEAL in the northern operations he never met a member of that outfit he didn’t want to waste “And without them, instead of fifty-eight thousand casualties, there could well have been sixtyplus Give the animals their omega seamaster watch due, AlexThey knew every inch of the territories, every square foot of jungle in the triangleThey—we—sent back more functional intelligence than all the units sent out by Saigon put together “My point, David, is that there can never be any connection between Medusa and the United States governmentOur involvement was never logged, much less acknowledged; the name itself was concealed as much as possibleThere’s no statute of limitations on war crimes, and Medusa was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of tiffany replica jewelry violent misfits who wanted the corrupt Southeast Asia back the way they knew it and used itIf it was ever established that Washington was behind Medusa, the reputation of some very important people in the White House and the State Department would be ruinedThey’re global power brokers now, but twenty years ago they were hotheaded junior staffers in Command SaigonWe can live with questionable tactics in time of war, but not with being accomplices in the slaughter of noncombatants and the diversion of funds totaling millions, both replica prada unknowingly paid for by the taxpayersIt’s like those still-sealed archives that detail how so many of our fat-cat financiers bankrolled the NazisSome things we never want out of their black holes, and Medusa’s one of them Webb again leaned back in the chair—now, however, taut, his eyes steady on his old friend, who was once briefly his deadly enemy“If what memory I have left serves me, Bourne was identified as having come out of Medusa “It was an entirely believable explanation and a perfect cover,” agreed Conklin, returning David’s gucci gucci | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
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ditches and @@@@@She put Half Moon over three ditches and four hedges on Ballyhara, but it wasn't the sameShe wrote to Charlotte Montague the next dayTwo weeks later three wagons rolled heavily up the driveThe furniture for MrsMontague's rooms had arrivedThe lady followed in a smart carriage, along with her maidShe directed the disposition of the furniture in a bedroom and sitting room near Scarlett's, then left her maid to see to her unpacking"Now we begin," she said to Scarlett"I might just as well not be here at all," Scarlett complained"The only thing I'm allowed to do is sign bank drafts for scandalous amounts of money She was talking to Ocras, Cat's tabbyThe name meant "hungry" in Irish and had been given by the cook in an exasperated moment Ocras ignored Scarlett, but she had no one else to talk to Charlotte Montague and MrsFitzpatrick seldom asked her opinion about anythingBoth of them knew what a Big House should be, and she didn'tNor was she very interestedFor most of her life the house she lived in had simply been there, already as it was, and she'd never thought about itTara was Tara, Aunt Pittypat's was Aunt Pitty's, even though half of it belonged to herScarlett had involved herself only with the house Rhett built for herShe'd bought the newest and most expensive furnishings and decorations, and she'd been pleased with them because they proved how rich she wasThe house itself never gave her pleasure; she hardly saw it Just as she didn't really see the Big House at Ballyhara Eighteenth-century Palladian, Charlotte said, and what, pray tell, was so important about that? What mattered to Scarlett was the land, for its richness and its crops, and the town, for its rents and services and because no one, not even Rhett, owned his own townHowever, she understood perfectly well that accepting invitations placed an obligation on her to return them, and she couldn't invite people to a place that had furniture in only two r | | Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
louis vuitton discount,Chanel Necklaces,gucci... louis vuitton discount,Chanel Necklaces,gucci backpack,chanel knockoff,chloe dior@@@@@ “You okay to sit tight for a while?” Jeb asked me I nodded, grateful at the thought of hiding againI ducked through the opening and then stood a few feet in, not sure what to do with myselfMelanie remembered that there were books here, but I reminded her of my vow to not touch anything “I got things to do, kid,” Jeb said to louis vuitton discount Jamie“Food ain't gonna fix itself, you knowYou up to guard duty?” “Sure,” Jamie said with a bright smileHis thin chest swelled with a deep breath My eyes widened in disbelief as I watched Jeb place the rifle in Jamie's eager hands “Are youcrazy? ” I shoutedMy voice was so loud that I didn't recognize it at firstIt felt like I'd Chanel Necklaces been whispering forever Jeb and Jamie looked up at me, shockedI was out in the hallway with them in a second I almost reached for the hard metal of the barrel, almost ripped it from the boy's handsWhat stopped me wasn't the knowledge that a move like that would surely get me killedWhat stopped me was the fact that I was weaker gucci backpack than the humans in this way; even to save the boy, I could not make myself touch the weapon I turned on Jeb instead “What are you thinking? Giving the weapon to a child? He could kill himself!” “Jamie's been through enough to be called a man, I thinkHe knows how to handle himself around a gun Jamie's shoulders straightened chanel knockoff at Jeb's praise, and he gripped the gun tighter to his chest I gaped at Jeb's stupidity“What if they come for me with him here? Did you think of what could happen? This isn't a joke! They'll hurt him to get to me!” Jeb remained calm, his face placid“Don't think there'll be any trouble today “Well, I wouldn't!” I was yelling chloe dior agai | | Saturday, December 25th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
@@@@@Why, when I think of my wife fooling around @@@@@Why, when I think of my wife fooling around probably right this minute, while I'm lying here sweating out tomorrow, I begin to get mad He cracked his knuckles nervously, fingered the steel pipe between their hammocks"It ain't as if tomorrow is gonna be so bad although they'll have recon working its ass off, but a little work ain't gonna kill us"Hell, if General Cummings was to come up to me tomorrow and say, 'Brown, I'm putting you on unloading detail for the duration,' you think I'd bitch? In the pig's hole I wouldI've seen enough combat to last ten men, and I'll tell you this invasion tomorrow if we was to be shelled from the ship to the beach and back couldn't begin to equal MotomeThat was one day I knew I was gonna be deadI still don't see how I got through it "What happened?" Stanley askedHe flexed his knees carefully to avoid kicking the man in the bunk above him, only a foot above his headThis story he had heard a dozen times when he was first assigned to recon, but he knew Brown liked to tell it "Well, from the beginning when they assigned the platoon to Baker Company for that rubber boat deal, it was a cinch we were screwed, but what could you do?" He went on, telling a story of how they had set out in rubber boats from a destroyer several hours before the dawn, had been caught in an ebb tide and seen by the Japanese"Man," Brown said, "maybe you think I wasn't keeping a tight asshole when those Japs started firing at us with an AA batteryThere wasn't any of our boats that didn't get hit some and start sinking, and in the one next to us was the Company Commander, Billings was his name I think, and the poor bastard had just broken down completelyHe was crying and moaning and trying to fire off a flare so the destroyer would open up and give us some cover, but he was shaking so much he couldn't hold the flare gun in his hand "And in the middle of all that, Croft stands up in their rubber boat, and he says, 'Why, you ornery sonofabitch, give me that gun' Billings gives it to him, and Croft stands up in plain sight of all those Japs on the beach, fires the gun twice, and then loads it Stanley shook his head in commiseration"That Croft is quite a guy," he said "Quite a guy! Listen, he's made of ironHe's the one man I'd never crossHe's probably the best platoon sergeant in the Army and the meanestHe just doesn't have any nerves," Brown said bitterly"Out of all the old guys in recon, there ain't one of us whose nerves ain't shotI tell ya, I'm scared all the time, and Red is tooAnd Gallagher, he's only been with us six months but he was in on the rubber boat deal and he counts too I suppose, he's scared, and Martinez is the best little scout you could ever want but he's even more scared than I am, and even Wilson although he don't let on much is none too hap | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
@@@@@The post was late this morning, but there @@@@@The post was late this morning, but there has not been since a moment’s delayHow impatient, how anxious, how wild I have been on the subject, I will not attempt to describe; how severely mortified, how cruelly disappointed, in not having it finished while I was in London! I was kept there from day to day in the hope of it, for nothing less dear to me than such an object would have detained me half the time from MansfieldBut though my uncle entered into my wishes with all the warmth I could desire, and exerted himself immediately, there were difficulties from the absence of one friend, and the engagements of another, which at last I could no longer bear to stay the end of, and knowing in what good hands I left the cause, I came away on Monday, trusting that many posts would not pass before I should be followed by such very letters as theseMy uncle, who is the very best man in the world, has exerted himself, as I knew he would, after seeing your brother He was delighted with himI would not allow myself yesterday to say how delighted, or to repeat half that the Admiral said in his praiseI deferred it all till his praise should be proved the praise of a friend, as this day does prove itNow I may say that even I could not require William Price to excite a greater interest, or be followed by warmer wishes and higher commendation, than were most voluntarily bestowed by my uncle after the evening they had passed together 262 Mansfield Park “Has this been all your doing, then?” cried Fanny“Good heaven! how very, very kind! Have you really—was it by your desire? I beg your pardon, but I am bewilderedDid Admiral Crawford apply? How was it? I am stupefied Henry was most happy to make it more intelligible, by beginning at an earlier stage, and explaining very particularly what he had doneHis last journey to London had been undertaken with no other view than that of introducing her brother in Hill Street, and prevailing on the Admiral to exert whatever interest he might have for getting him onThis had been his businessHe had communicated it to no creature: he had not breathed a syllable of it even to Mary; while uncertain of the issue, he could not have borne any participation of his feelings, but this had been his business; and he spoke with such a glow of what his solicitude had been, and used such strong expressions, was so abounding in the deepest interest, in twofold motives, in views and wishes more than could be told, that Fanny could not have remained insensible of his drift, had she been able to attend; but her heart was so full and her senses still so astonished, that she could listen but imperfectly even to what he told her of William, and saying only when he paused, “How kind! how very kind! Oh, MrCrawford, we are infinitely obliged to you! Dearest, dearest William!” She jumped up and moved in haste towards the door, crying out, “I will go to my uncleMy uncle ought to know it as soon as possible But this could not be sufferedThe opportunity was too fair, and his feelings too impatientHe was after her immediately“She must not go, she must allow him five minutes longer,” and he took her hand and led her back to her seat, and was in the middle of his farther explanation, before she had suspected for what she was detainedWhen she did understand it, however, and found herself expected to believe that she had created sensations which his heart had never known before, and that everything he had done for William was to be placed to the account of his excessive and unequalled attachment to her, she was exceedingly distressed, and for some moments unable to speakShe considered it all as nonsense, as mere trifling and gallantry, which meant only to deceive for the hour; she could not but feel that it was treating her improperly and unworthily, and in such a way as she had not 263 Jane Austen deserved; but it was like himself, and entirely of a piece with what she had seen before; and she would not allow herself to shew half the displeasure she felt, because he had been conferring an obligation, which no want of delicacy on his part could make a trifle to herWhile her heart was still bounding with joy and gratitude on William’s behalf, she could not be severely resentful of anything that injured only herself; and after having twice drawn back her hand, and twice attempted in vain to turn away from him, she got up, and said only, with much agitation, “Don’t, MrCrawford, pray don’t! I beg you would not | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 2:44 am |
fake hermes,top chanel,vintage omega... fake hermes,top chanel,vintage omega watches,louis vuitton prices,hermes replica@@@@@I’m left with nothingMy persistence brought me only a sore throat and a burned scalp “Not necessarily,” interrupted Marie“You’re the attorney, so I shouldn’t have to tell you Corroboration is cooperationWe may want you to tell everything you know to certain people in Washington “Corroboration can be obtained with a subpoena, my dearUnder oath in a courtroom, take my personal as well as my professional word for it “We won’t be going fake hermes to court “You couldn’t possibly, Judge, not at this junctureHowever, if you agree to help us you’ll be well paidA moment ago you said that you had strong reasons for wanting to help, reasons that had to be secondary to your own well-being—” “Are you by any chance a lawyer, my dear?” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 130 “No, an economist “Holy Mary, that’s worseAbout my reasons?” “Do they concern your client, the man who top chanel hired you to trace us?” “They doHis august persona—as in Caesar Augustus—should be trashedSlippery, intellectuality aside, he’s a whoreHe had promise once, more than I let him know, but he let it all go by the boards in a flamboyant quest for his own personal grail “What the hell’s he talking about, Mare?” “A man with a great deal of influence or power, neither of which he should have, I thinkOur convicted felon here has come to grips vintage omega watches with personal morality “Is that an economist speaking?” asked Prefontaine, once more absently touching the blistered flesh of his neck“An economist reflecting on her last inaccurate projection that caused in appropriate buying or selling on the stock exchanges, resulting in losses many could afford and many more could not?” “My voice was never that important, but I’ll grant you it’s the reflection of a great many others whose louis vuitton prices projections were, because they never risked, they only theorizedYou may need the protection we can provideWhat’s your answer?” “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, you’re a cold one—” “I have to be,” said Marie, her eyes leveled on the man from Boston“I want you with us, but I won’t beg, I’ll simply leave you with nothing and you can go back to the streets in Boston “Are you sure you’re not a lawyer—or perhaps a lord high executioner?” “Take your hermes replica choice | | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 | | 2:44 am |
@@@@@But as reality re-asserted itself - @@@@@But as reality re-asserted itself - the cottage by Lake Phalen, not the house in Mendota Heights, no croaking voice downstairs - the urge passed 59 Reba the Anger-Management Doll in the Boston rocker, and grown to the size of an actual child Well, why not? I had been angry, although at Mrs Fevereau rather than at poor Gandalf, and I had no idea what toothy frogs had to do with the price of beans in BostonThe real question, it seemed to me, was about Monica's dogHad I killed Gandalf, or had he just expired? Or maybe the question was why I'd been so hungry afterwardMaybe that was the question "I took him in my arms," I whispered Your arm, you mean, because now one is all you've got But my memory was taking him in my arms, plural Channeling my anger (it was RED) away from that foolish woman with her cigarette and cell phone and somehow back into myself, in some kind of crazy closed looptaking him in my armssurely a hallucination, but yes, that was my memory Taking him in my arms 60 Cradling his neck with my left elbow so I could strangle him with my right hand Strangle him and put him out of his misery I slept shirtless, so it was easy to look at my stumpI only had to turn my headI could wiggle it, but not much moreI did that a couple of times, and then I looked up at the ceilingMy heartbeat was slowing a little "The dog died of his injuries," I said An autopsy would confirm that Except no one did autopsies on dogs that died after being crushed to bones and jelly by Hummers driven by careless, distracted women I looked at the ceiling and I wished this life was ove | | Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | | 2:44 am |
@@@@@And if I was trying to save only @@@@@And if I was trying to save only the Seeker, this would be the moment when I would change my mind and turn aroundShe wasn't worth selling out the othersEven she would agree with that Or would she? I suddenly wonderedThe Seeker didn't seem to be as… what was the word Jared had used?AltruisticAs altruistic as the rest of usMaybe she would count her own life dearer than the lives of many But it was too late to change my mindI'd already thought far beyond just saving the Seeker For one thing, this would happen againThe humans would kill any souls they came across unless I gave them another optionMore than that, I was going to save Melanie, and that was worth the sacrificeI was going to save Jared and Jamie, tooMight as well save the repugnant Seeker while I was at it The souls were wrong to be hereMy humans deserved their worldI could not give it back to them, but I could give them thisIf only I could be sure that they would not be cruel I would just have to trust Doc, and hope And maybe wring the promise from a few more of my friends, just in case I wondered how many human lives I would saveHow many souls' lives Imight saveThe only one I couldn't save now was myselfEven over the sound of our exerted breathing, Jared heard thatIn my peripheral vision, I saw his face turn, felt his eyes boring into me, but I did not look over to meet his gaze | | Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | | 2:46 am |
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