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f01ddde
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That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She felt ripe to bursting.
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Holly Black |
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acb81ce
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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Holly Black |
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4a246b5
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Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.
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books
dark
holly-black
monstrous
pearl
pearl-bach
tana
tana-bach
tana-s-mother
terror
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
wonderfully-awful
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Holly Black |
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42ea1d6
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Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."
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books
dark
gavriel
holly-black
literature
paranormal
paranormal-romance
romance
tana-bach
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
vampires
ya
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Holly Black |
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4ce670a
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Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?
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Holly Black |
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29459cf
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She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park." He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly." "I guess she mistook me for someone else." I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can..
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Holly Black |
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a0340d2
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If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least."
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Holly Black |
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85b4691
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She came out of sleep like a thunderclap--waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
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fear
tana-bach
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Holly Black |
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c35ec46
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I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipes off my knife in the dirt, wipes off my hand on his clothes, and gets out of there before the guards come.
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Holly Black |
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7125fc4
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Things will be as they always are," he tells me. "Only more so."
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fae
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Holly Black |
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8b92b6d
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What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do t..
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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a9f4613
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I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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d938e5f
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Feels almost like real agent work, doesn't it?" Barron says as we walk down the street, heads bowed against the wind. "You know, if we caught your girlfriend committing a crime, I bet Yulikova would give us a bonus or something for being prize pupils." "Except that we're not going to do that," I say. "I thought you wanted us to be good guys." He grins a too-wide grin. He's enjoying needling me, and my reacting only makes it worse, but I c..
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Holly Black |
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bef8739
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Holly Black |
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3db61e2
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Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their good with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, not their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise.
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Holly Black |
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5cf36e5
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Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.
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Holly Black |
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e9f0b2b
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All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't."
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Holly Black |
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b49d4cc
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Eat anything before you started drinking?" Xander asked. "Fuck off." "I can tell that vodka is helping you make great decisions." Javier glared. "Fuck off." "Has your vocabulary been reduced to two words now?" "No. Please fuck off."
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Shayla Black |
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16d5baa
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He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood."
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blood
boys
dark
imprisoned
paranormal
paranormal-romance
tana
tana-bach
teens
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
ya
young-adult
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Holly Black |
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48e9680
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Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
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Holly Black |
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b3e7ac1
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I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like . It feels like each one of you is being possessed and I'm next.
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Holly Black |
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846ccdd
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Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.
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angels
holly-black
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Holly Black |
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5c44354
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He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Holly Black |
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549d24e
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His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.
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gavriel
paranormal
paranormal-romance
romance
sci-fi
tana
tana-bach
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
ya
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Holly Black |
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0b7b356
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In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling
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Holly Black |
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c83a2e5
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You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
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Holly Black |
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aa1703f
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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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Holly Black |
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6af6425
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It's not fair. We had a story, and our story was important. And I hate that both of you can just walk away and take part of my story with you and not even care. I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like dying. It feels like each of you is being possessed and I'm next.
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Holly Black |
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8abdcb9
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You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one."
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Holly Black |
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27702db
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I concentrate on what I am going to say to Vivi, instead of thinking of Cardan. I do not want to consider what happened between us. I do not want to think about the way his muscles moved or how his skin felt or the soft gasping sounds he made or the slide of his mouth against mine. I definitely don't want to think about how hard I had to bite my own lip to keep quiet. Or how obvious it was that I'd never done any of the things we did, no le..
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desire
pleasure
sex
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Holly Black |
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c710e5c
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Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
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distopian
young-adult-fiction
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Holly Black |
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e12b65d
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I am no murderer," says Cardan, surprising me. I would not have thought that was something to be proud of."
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Holly Black |
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68b3d49
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A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame's future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper.... When he becomes drunk, his subjects becomes tipsy without knowing why. When his blood falls, things grow.
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Holly Black |
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c01598c
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You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it." "Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you."
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Holly Black |
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7b56bc7
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He gave her a smile that wasn't really a smile at all. "Eh, it wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep on a bower of roses." Hazel made a face. "I'm pretty sure there are some colleges where you can do that. I bet there are some colleges where you can major in that."
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hazel
jack
sat
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Holly Black |
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354779e
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Once, there was a girl who found a sword in the woods. Once, there was a girl who made a bargain with the Folk. Once, there was a girl who'd been a knight in the service of a monster. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Once, there was a girl... Hazel
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Holly Black |
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16be400
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Lucien," Gavriel said, "if you're proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me."
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Holly Black |
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76ede5e
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He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been heroic too or whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to b..
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failure
heroes
quests
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Holly Black |
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50a5ea0
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If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.
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black-heart
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Holly Black |
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752e9fc
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Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for noth..
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capitalism
labor
work
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Bob Black |
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1593476
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You haven't touched me, and I'm already unfocused.:
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luc-traverson
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Shayla Black |
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815ba0c
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Stay where I can taste you. Take the pleasure I give you.
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luc-traverson
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Shayla Black |
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5f9e8e8
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Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole
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Holly Black |
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a657440
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There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.
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Holly Black |