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“He was wild and dangerous, and she should not be attracted to either. "Aren't you afraid?" she asked. "Fear stops life, not death," he said, and when she looked at him in surprise, he paused, and the world seemed to pause with him. "I tell myself that anytime I think there's a fire going to swallow me whole.”

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Book:A Tempest of Tea
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