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ef525ac
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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funny
ironside
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Holly Black |
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b4cc8a2
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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con
lie
sexy
devil
wit
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Holly Black |
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39dc42f
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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Holly Black |
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62af2d5
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If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.
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Holly Black |
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3f39a4c
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Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.
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Holly Black |
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130507b
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Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.
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lust
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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ed28367
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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sea
water
faery
ocean
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Holly Black |
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b8aafa2
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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lies
truth
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Holly Black |
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d8d477c
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Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
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life
inevitable
choices
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Holly Black |
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7ebf377
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What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
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Holly Black |
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92aed4f
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If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
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satisfaction
wisdom
curious
curiosity
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Holly Black |
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95364b6
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If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.
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pain
hurting
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Holly Black |
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09493c0
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Every hero is the villain of his own story.
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Holly Black |
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fc2fe58
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You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
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Holly Black |
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fb6caff
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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Holly Black |
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29ebbb4
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So I am to sit here and feed you information," Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. "And you're to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward." I fix him with a look. "I can be charming. I charmed you, didn't I?" He rolls his eyes. "Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes."
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Holly Black |
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2bdff6a
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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humor
star-trek
tv-reference
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Holly Black |
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01b901e
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets."
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trouble
regret
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Holly Black |
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e5923c4
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Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it." --
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want
kiss
foolish
sick
drunk
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Holly Black |
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b99dea3
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Nice things don't happen in storybooks. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
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storybooks
taryn
jude
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Holly Black |
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ab6f1b9
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I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.
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Holly Black |
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675c4a6
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I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.
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Holly Black |
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75f44e3
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Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours."
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moms
sensitive
strong
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Holly Black |
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ddb7c72
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Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
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Holly Black |
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3b6a191
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She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety."
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white-cat
holly-black
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Holly Black |
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537eff1
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The three of you have one solution to every problem. No key fits every lock." Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. "Someone tries to betray the High King, Someone gives you a harsh look, Someone disrespects you, Someone ruins your laundry, "
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murder
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Holly Black |
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ccdb438
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If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.
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Holly Black |
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ebd570c
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Death's favorites don't die.
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Holly Black |
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c94d82d
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Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me." "I can't."
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romance
love
hideous-beauty
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Holly Black |
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d5a4a3a
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Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.
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Holly Black |
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760104d
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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Holly Black |
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91d9765
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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happy
life
miserable
sad
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Holly Black |
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608e809
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I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.
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Holly Black |
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0a4a26b
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Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.
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madoc
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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7f7ef38
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Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you've fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you'd st..
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Holly Black |
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a90ed63
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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Holly Black |
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3fa29e8
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I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.
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life
benjamin-evans
running-away
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Holly Black |
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d5e76da
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He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.
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Holly Black |
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d0144d6
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Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
locke
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Holly Black |
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9b2d0cb
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He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. "For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed."
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shooting
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Holly Black |
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2797142
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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kaye
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Holly Black |
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9513286
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What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
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books
knowledge
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Holly Black |
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80b7e67
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Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.
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madoc
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Holly Black |
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668be70
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You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that."
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Holly Black |