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8b39ced
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So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job."
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Holly Black |
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de1c943
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You don't know what you are.
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Holly Black |
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91e7a2c
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As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.
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Holly Black |
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bd3513e
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she wanted him to feel like she did, like he'd done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he'd like and really wasn't supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted. "Kiss me again," she whispered, reaching up, her fingers sliding through his hair. She almost didn't know herself as she moved against him. He bent helplessly toward her. She bit her tongue. Bit it hard, the pain chasing through her nerve end..
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Holly Black |
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c2b9ac8
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Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call's eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them -- Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater.
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Holly Black |
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59eb9f5
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I try not to be too conscious of his long fingers tracing over the paper, of the sick thrill I get when he looks at me.
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Holly Black |
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3437fb5
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I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with great uncertainty about what will happen next.
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Holly Black |
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e527549
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One-way ticket to Las Vegas: three hundred fifty dollars. A week's stay at the Bellagio while he convinced Nicki to give him this crazy job: eighteen hundred dollars. Cost of pizza to bribe his way into her apartment: fifteen bucks. Seeing her reaction to his claim that she didn't particularly affect him sexually: absolutely priceless.
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Shayla Black |
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ff03a02
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Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
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death
heart
inspirational
love
my-idol
prince-valiant
valiant
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Holly Black |
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ff0ed95
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I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them."
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Holly Black |
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58486a6
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said."
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Holly Black |
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d60f338
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Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.
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Holly Black |
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03735c9
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You could still be lying," says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. "Try her." "Your pardon?" Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he's speaking in such an offhanded way. "Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty," the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. "I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth." Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I k..
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glamour
lying
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Holly Black |
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e6d3a1a
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And you want more holes because you think pain will distract you from all the annoying celebrating? Or because stabbing me will make you feel better?" "Something like that." She smiled enigmatically, went into the bathroom, and came out with a wad of cotton balls and a safety pin."
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Holly Black |
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2a5b53b
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It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.
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Holly Black |
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c429ff5
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I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thin..
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Holly Black |
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900f8e0
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The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton."
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Holly Black |
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bbf36ee
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More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
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Holly Black |
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d1fed04
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You in trouble?" Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he's thinking about how to get out of here if I am."
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Holly Black |
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274cd11
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Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.
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Holly Black |
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9fc1eab
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.
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Holly Black |
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e959214
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Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners."
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funny
morganville-vampires
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Rachel Caine Black Dawn |
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Fuck!" he snarled. He tilted her up again, her legs now resting on his shoulders, and positioned himself and began to push. Into her back entrance. Kimber drew in a great, shocked gasp, her hazel eyes wide. "Deke?" "What the hell are you doing?" Luc barked. Tensing a little more with every inch he pushed inside Kimber's tight passage, the tendons on his neck standing out, the muscles in his arms shaking, assailed by the amazing sensations o..
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Shayla Black |
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03eb5fb
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He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.
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Shayla Black |
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c99e1d5
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It's that...what I want isn't what I need.
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luc-traverson
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Shayla Black |
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b6da56e
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All friendships are negotiations of power.
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power
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Holly Black |
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86038bf
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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Holly Black |
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265c4aa
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She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.
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love
romance
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Holly Black |
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5901209
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Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
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normalcy
sad
you-re-not-special
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Holly Black |
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3258f1e
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It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it
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Holly Black |
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95b7703
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Guard your mortal heart.
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cruel
dangerous
dark
fantasy
jude
locke
prince-cardan
young-adult
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Holly Black |
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1b0ea17
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Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything.
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Holly Black |
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058fff2
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It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of wate..
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Holly Black |
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eabced6
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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Holly Black |
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d0392da
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Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough. "I promise," she whispered. "I'll try."
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Holly Black |
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5a14c6d
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She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.
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forbidden-pleasure
holly-black
vampire
ya-lit
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Holly Black |
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a4afbf3
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That's family for you. Can't live with them; can't murder them. Unless Barron rats me out to Yulikova. Then I really might.
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Holly Black |
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e584d1b
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She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here."
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Holly Black |
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d893a66
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Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night.
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children
nature
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Holly Black |
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db8ddaf
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It was good to be hugged. Even by a monster.
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monster
vulnerability
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Holly Black |
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f32ba0e
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You think I don't deserve him," I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. "Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other."
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fair-folk
fantasy
holly-black
jude
tcp
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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786f691
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He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he might never see me again.
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Holly Black |
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7886c86
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Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.
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Holly Black |
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0f68f68
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When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
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love
searching
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Holly Black |