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LaCroix: "Love. A blip on the monitor of involuntary human response. A hiccup of emotion when compared with envy, hatred, lust."

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LaCroix: "And just who was this Saint Valentine? A bishop, Roman third century. Got his head sliced off - ouch - for marrying lovers against his emperor's decree. "

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LaCroix: "You see, Claudius the Second believed that men made better warriors unmarried. Power comes with the absence of love."

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LaCroix: "Love drains us of our strength. We never learn, do we?"

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LaCroix: "And you say that love conquers all. Well not for you, Saint Valentine. Not for me. Not for any of the heart-broken."

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LaCroix: "This is utter madness! We should never have come here! This, this is what I get for humoring you, Nicolas. It will not happen again."

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LaCroix: "Not any more. Just get on with it."

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LaCroix: "Forgive me. I...I need to rest."

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LaCroix: "Does love really exist in this hedonistic world of ours? Or is it only our selfish needs, our own desires that fuel the potion?"

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LaCroix: "Does she love me. Love me not? What does it really matter? What hellish alchemy if it does?"

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LaCroix: "A good book is hard to put down."
Fleur: "The heavens - they're my new passion."
LaCroix: "And a very old one of mine."

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LaCroix: "A generous compliment that I don't deserve. More accurately, my pain evaporated with the warmth of your touch."

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LaCroix: "Just say no to love. Carnival kewpie and an electric blanket will give you more satisfaction. Don't ever give them your heart."

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LaCroix: "I would have agreed before we arrived. How do you think this makes me feel? I can't control it, I can't accept it, and yet it is."

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LaCroix: "No, of course I haven't forgotten! But Fleur is eveything that I am not. She is pure, life-giving. My immortality has nothing to do with my feeling...love."

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LaCroix: "Each is unique. Each possesses the potential to reveal the mysteries of the universe."
Fleur: "Oh, I desire that knowledge."
LaCroix: "We both seek the same revelation"

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LaCroix: "If I could spend the rest of my days on this quest with you, there is nothing more I would ask of life."

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LaCroix: "It's as if we've been together forever."

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LaCroix: "Constant stars - the only comforting light. Kill the pain, this incessant longing."

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LaCroix: "Like some sweet on the track, roll steel wheels right over her precious body. She's just a girl, the apple of your pie in the sky. Valentine her good."

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LaCroix: "Goodbye, my friend. Pass your days in one night stands. Tear apart the threads - the web of love's truth. Where strings of beauties wrap your heart strings around your neck."

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LaCroix: "My only comfort is a vision I have that you and I will never die. That we'll be together for all eternity."

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LaCroix: "There is a way, my precious flower."

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LaCroix: "Whose heart do you choose to break, Nicolas? Your mother's, your sister's, mine?"

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LaCroix: "Aren't you a little confused, Nicolas? She is mortal, therefore she will die and all her beauty will die with her. I can preserve that forever."

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LaCroix: " Would you rather see this beauty wither to old age and die?"

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LaCroix: "It is a great irony, is it not, that such a cold, still heart can feel such pain."

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LaCroix: "I'm honored that you could accept my invitation, Ms. Lambert. Natalie, if I may."

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LaCroix: "Oh, but you do, you must. I'm certain that Nicolas has spoken of me at some point or other."

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LaCroix: "Lucien LaCroix."

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LaCroix: "The pleasure is all mine, I assure you. Please, do sit down."

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LaCroix: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. I know how much Nicolas cares for you. I simply felt it was time that we met, don't you agree?"

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LaCroix: "And I heard that you were pretty, but not that you were exquisite."

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LaCroix: "Yes, I hope you don't mind. I bought out the entire restaurant this evening in your honor. I thought it would be an appropriate way for us to get to know one another."

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LaCroix: "Perhaps we should talk a little about love."

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LaCroix: "Yes, you've probably done me a favor, but you must realize, Nicolas, that I will demand retribution."

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LaCroix: "One day, when you have fallen in love, I will take from you what you have taken from me now. We're agreed?"

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LaCroix: "Are we agreed?"

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LaCroix: "I've always enjoyed the ceremony of opening champagne. The pressure release, the fine spray, the vapors."

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LaCroix: "Weddings and such. Or sometimes simply to indulge. On the subject of weddings, I understand you may be planning one of your own in the near future."

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LaCroix: "Oh. You do love Nicolas, do you not?"

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LaCroix: "True love is like morphine. One taste and you're enslaved. Unless, of course, there are extraordinary circumstances that stand in your way."

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LaCroix: "That's a very good attitude, but an insurmountable problem."

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LaCroix: "There's nothing more captivating than meeting one's opposite. You fuse together like two sides of the same coin."

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LaCroix: "That is a luxury that neither Nicolas or I can afford. We may mix minds with mortals, but anything more than that could be quite hazardous to your health."

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LaCroix: "A toast then. To new friends, old champagne and passions of the heart."

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LaCroix: "They say the food here is sublime."

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LaCroix: "That particular frustration is nothing but an irritant compared to some that I've known, but that was a long time ago."

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LaCroix: "If Nicolas has not already told you, permit to say that radiance such as yours is more satisfying than any food could possible be. I'm quite content with that."

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LaCroix: "There are many mortal pleasures that we cannot experience."

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LaCroix: "Ah, but do be careful. Have you never considered the possibility that Nicolas's so-called 'condition' is the very quality in him that you adore?"

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LaCroix: "It is not uncommon - the attraction that you feel. A force of nature as immuatble as the stars. Others have felt it before."

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LaCroix: "Did it surprise you when Nicolas expressed his love for you?"

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LaCroix: "And did he tell you that he wished to spend the rest of his days with you? That you moved him as no mortal ever before?"

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LaCroix: "Ah, how wonderful. I am so happy."

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LaCroix: " I have not backed down on our agreement. I merely claim what is rightfully mine."

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LaCroix: "Your memory is as weak as the object of your love."

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LaCroix: "I will have the retribution that you promised me. I will deprive you of the mortal that you love, or I will deprive her of you. Either way, your promise will be fulfilled."

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LaCroix: "I shall enjoy watching it take you over. The torture that I have felt every moment since I left your sister behind."

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LaCroix: "Hypocrisy from you is even more sickening from you than I expected."

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LaCroix: "Then prove it to me: bring her over."

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LaCroix: "Then I will do with her as I please."

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LaCroix: "Why not? I know you too well. You revere all that is mortal, all that is human. If you really loved her, you would never take that from her. You would rather see her die."

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LaCroix: "I will not trade Fleur for that."

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LaCroix: "Your heart is still untouched. It has never quickened with such passion, never ached with such sorrow. Bot someday it will, Nicolas. Someday it will."

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LaCroix: "Love exists. Rages within. A silent scream of endless pain."