Die for Me (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Kate Beaumont Mercier: Sixteen year old American girl who moves to Paris after the death of her parents. She's got some nicknames: Katie-lou, Katie-bean. Katya.
• Jeanne: Vincent's housekeeper/cook.
• Lucien Philippe Henri Poitevin: One of the many guys Georgia is seeing. Owns a club.
• Vincent Pierre Henri Delacroix: Teenage boy Kate is falling for. Has many secrets. Dark hair and gorgeous.
• Georgia Frances Mercier: Kate's older sister. A social butterfly and party-girl. (almost Kate's complete opposite.)
• Jules Marchenoir: A very close friend of Vincent. Also lives with Vincent, Ambrose, Charlotte, and Charles. An artist.
• Ambrose Bates: A close friend of Vincent's. Built like a body-builder.
• Charlotte Violaine Lorieux: A close friend of Vincent's. Charles is her twin brother.
• Charles Aurelien Lorieux: A close friend of Vincent. Charlotte's twin
• Gaspard Louis-Marie Tabard: Lives with Vincent. A slightly awkward middle-aged poet.
• Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Balthazar Grimod de La Reynière: Lives with Vincent. Sixtyish. Very regal. From old money.
• Emilie Mercier: aka Mamie' Kate's and Georgia's grandmother
• Antoine Mercier: aka papy; Kate's and Georgia's grandfather
• Jacques Dupont: Add a description of this character.
• Mamie
• Thierry Simon
• Georgia Brown
• Alex
• Lucien Poitevin
• Vincent Delacroix
• Hélène
• Lawrence
• Valerie

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• “Sugar and caffeine, best medicines in the world”

  Vincent

• “Do you have life insurance? Because I could quite possibly kill all three of us if you let me hold a deadly blade.”

  Kate

• “Okay back off Ambrose. You may be bigger than me but I have a sword.”

  Vincent

• “Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!”

  Lucien

• “Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”

  Kate

• “I spent the rest of my day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower’s target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head.”

  Kate

• “I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.”

  Vincent

• “"But persevere. He's worth it."”

  Jeanne

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• What’s better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?

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• “Better not to have loved at all, than to love and have lost.”

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• Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

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• I lived in the past, desperately clinging to every scrap of memory from my former life. It was a life I had taken for granted, thinking it would last forever.

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• “Well, spit on my empty grave—if it ain’t the attack of the Disney princesses!”

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• I spent the rest of my day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower’s target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head. From time to time I fell asleep, but was immediately awakened by dark, tortured dreams that, once I awoke, dissolved without a trace.

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• As if pulled straight out of a fairy tale, the wand-waving brilliance makes you feel like absolutely anything could happen to you at any moment and you wouldn’t even be surprised.

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• “It’s not you who is dead,” she said. “Mom and Dad are. And they would want you to live.”

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• “Looks like you’re wrong there,” Vincent said through me. “You never were the brightest zombie in the graveyard.”

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• Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Brooklyn, New York, USA: Kate and Georgia's old home

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• Revenants: A Revenant is a ghost-type immortal, but still has a human body.
• Numa: Describe this term.
• Volant: When the revenants are in the body is asleep zone and they can float around and talk to only revenants

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Until I Die.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Amy Plum (Author)

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• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Spine-Chilling Horror
• Books › Romance › Series
• Books › Romance › Gothic

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• Amy Plum Books: The author's website

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